Linguistics

Linguistics is the science of language.

Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
Latim em pó: Um passeio pela formação do nosso português
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
Мова-меч. Як говорила радянська імперія
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell
Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland
Magic Words: The New Science of Language for Persuasion, Communication, and Driving Action
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Metaphors We Live By
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Course in General Linguistics
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene WolfeShadow & Claw by Gene WolfeSword & Citadel by Gene WolfeThe Claw of the Conciliator by Gene WolfeThe Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe
Linguistically refreshing!
6 books — 1 voter
The Beauty Myth by Naomi WolfFeminist Theory by bell hooksCommunion by bell hooksOur Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book ...White Teeth by Zadie Smith
SMASH THE PATRIARCHY
60 books — 10 voters

The Power of Babel by Michel PierssensGrossman's Glossary of Every Humorous Word in the English Lan... by Richard GrossmanStrange Linguistics by Mark NewbrookJamaica Talk by Frederic Gomes CassidyMissing the Meaning? by David    Howard
•Tongue Hatches
100 books — 3 voters
النهضة اللغوية وخطاب التلهيج الفرانكفوني - في نقد الاستعمار ا... by سلمان بونعمان"The Shining Ones" by Helene E. HaganDébuts de l'écriture au Maghreb - نشأة الكتابة في البلاد المغ... by Ahmed SirajTirra - Aux origines de l'écriture au Maroc by Ahmed SkountiLangues et pouvoir. De l'Afrique du Nord à l'Extrême-Orient by Salem Chaker
Maghreb Linguarum
75 books — 6 voters

Pro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyNineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness by Patrick  HouseAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyNever Go With Your Gut by Gleb Tsipursky
Cognitive Science (Abridged)
13 books — 24 voters
The Republic by PlatoThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnThe Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge
216 books — 142 voters


Ludwig Wittgenstein
An entire mythology is stored within our language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

David Foster Wallace
There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were. ...more
David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

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