Linguistics

Linguistics is the science of language.

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How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
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Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink
Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland
The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell
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
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building

Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

Charles Darwin
It may be worth while to illustrate this view of classification, by taking the case of languages. If we possessed a perfect pedigree of mankind, a genealogical arrangement of the races of man would afford the best classification of the various languages now spoken throughout the world; and if all extinct languages, and all intermediate and slowly changing dialects, were to be included, such an arrangement would be the only possible one. Yet it might be that some ancient languages had altered ver ...more
Charles Darwin

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