Linguistics

Linguistics is the science of language.

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
The Language of Liars
Glyph
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
The Mulai
Eden
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
The Lost Language of Oysters (Portuguese Irregular Verbs, #6)
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
Etymologian etymologia ja muita etymologioita (Kirjokansi #370)
True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink
Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions
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 Book on How Thousands of Tongues Evolved from One Source
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Metaphors We Live By
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
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
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
English Idioms Vocabulary 2022 Complete Edition by Premier English Learning Pu...English C1 Advanced and C2 Proficiency Smart Vocabulary by Premier English Learning Pu...Fluent Forever by Gabriel WynerFluent in 3 Months by Benny LewisThe Glamour of Grammar by Roy Peter Clark
Bücher zum Englisch Lernen
129 books — 3 voters

Ethereal by Phillip BainbridgeSeven Beyond by Stella AtriumThe Consolation of Philosophy by BoethiusPhilosophy of Evil by Lars Fredrik Händler SvendsenThe Art of War and Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy by Sun Tzu
books with ‘philosophy’ in title
255 books — 29 voters
Wheelock's Latin by Frederic M. WheelockChomsky For Beginners by David CogswellText Structure by Nelly TinchevaThe Mother Tongue by Bill  BrysonBreaking the Bias of English by Vivian R. Probst
Linguistics
10 books — 5 voters

Breaking the Bias of English by Vivian R. ProbstMan Made Language by Dale SpenderLanguage and Woman's Place by Robin Tolmach LakoffPronoun Envy by Anna LiviaLanguage and Gender by Penelope Eckert
Feminist linguistics
41 books — 17 voters
Forensic Linguistics by John OlssonWordcrime by John OlssonThe Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics by Malcolm CoulthardAn Introduction to Forensic Linguistics by Malcolm CoulthardForensic Linguistics by John Olsson
Forensic Linguistics (Non-Fiction)
13 books — 1 voter


Arika Okrent
“ The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave, or what its creations should look like, but to describe those creations in all their messy glory and try to figure out what they can teach us about life, the world, and, especially in the case of linguistics, the workings of the human mind. ”
― Arika Okrent, In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language

Alex Morritt
“ In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is the art of pairing unique quotations with complementary images in order to express thought-provoking ideas, challenging concepts, profound sentiments'. ...more ”
― Alex Morritt, Lines & Lenses

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