Linguistics

Linguistics is the science of language.

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True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink
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
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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
Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de SaussureThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerAn Introduction to Language by Victoria A. FromkinThe Study of Language by George YuleMetaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
Best Books about Linguistics
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SMASH THE PATRIARCHY
60 books — 10 voters

A Splendid Exchange by William J. BernsteinThe Righteous Mind by Jonathan HaidtMade to Stick by Chip HeathThe Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas TalebLiquid Times by Zygmunt Bauman
21st Century PSYOP
23 books — 2 voters
The weather matrix and human behavior by Michael A. PersingerBecoming a Private Investigator by Howie KahnBrain Tests by Edmund ShaftesburyThe Red Market by Scott CarneyHandbook for the Integrity Tone Scale by Vern Black
Paraforensic
145 books — 2 voters


Stephen Fry
Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God, the dew on a fresh apple, it's the soft rain of dust that falls into a shaft of morning sun when you pull from an old bookshelf a forgotten volume of erotic diaries; language is the faint scent of urine on a pair of boxer shorts, it's a half-remembered childhood birthday party, a creak on the sta ...more
Stephen Fry

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.
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