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Lists

Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure

An Introduction to Language by Victoria A. Fromkin

Best Books about Linguistics

255 books — 224 voters

The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Philosophy of Evil by Lars Fredrik Händler Svendsen

The Art of War and Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy by Sun Tzu

books with ‘philosophy’ in title

251 books — 25 voters

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, A Dictionary of Buckish... by Francis Grose

I Love it When You Talk Retro by Ralph Keyes

Smaller Slang Dictionary by Eric Partridge

Straight from the Fridge, Dad by Max Décharné

•One Horse Open Slang

120 books — 5 voters

The Life Of A Psychic Detective by Nancy Orlen Weber

Конституционный строй в России. by Андрей Полеев

Berlin - Zoologischer Garten by Andrej Poleev

The Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor

Enzymes book

18 books — 6 voters

The Laboratory of Poetry by Michel Chaouli

Why good things happen to bad people? by Vu M. Do

The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed by Racter

Secrets of Doctor John Dee by Gordon James

•Bedappled In Adam's Apples

110 books — 6 voters

The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics by Malcolm Coulthard

An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics by Malcolm Coulthard

Forensic Linguistics (Non-Fiction)

14 books — 1 voter

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“ 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

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“ ...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and how he "expresses himself" have been thrown into big time flux. ...more ”
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

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