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
Hèhè
The Language of Liars
True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland
Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages
Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
A Guide to Midwestern Conversation
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
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
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
Learning Irish by Mícheál Ó SiadhailBasic Irish by Nancy StensonIntermediate Irish by Nancy StensonIrish Grammar You Really Need to Know by Éamonn Ó DónaillBuntus Cainte by Tomas O Domhnallain
Leabhair Gramadai Gaelige
38 books — 11 voters
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

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
251 books — 25 voters
The Republic by PlatoThe Order of Things by Michel FoucaultThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnAgainst Method by Paul Karl FeyerabendThe Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper
Knowledge
227 books — 173 voters



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

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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Pecinta Linguistik Indonesia Grup untuk para pecinta linguistik di Indonesia. Bisa bahas buku-buku linguistik (baik bahasa In…more
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Polyglots & Linguaphiles Browsing books on the languages of the world.
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