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
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
The Language-Lover's Lexipedia: An A-Z of Linguistic Curiosities
Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog
Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland
Translating Myself and Others
Мова-меч. Як говорила радянська імперія
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

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
If there's any interaction between genes and languages, it is often languages that influence genes, since linguistic differences between populations lessen the chance of genetic exchange between them. ...more
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

David Foster Wallace
...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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