Linguistics

Linguistics is the science of language.

New Releases Tagged "Linguistics"

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
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
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
255 books — 224 voters
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

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, A Dictionary of Buckish... by Francis GroseI Love it When You Talk Retro by Ralph KeyesHow to Commit a Murder by Danny AhearnSmaller Slang Dictionary by Eric PartridgeStraight from the Fridge, Dad by Max Décharné
•One Horse Open Slang
120 books — 5 voters
The Life Of A Psychic Detective by Nancy Orlen WeberКонституционный строй в России. by Андрей ПолеевEssays and Letters. by Andrej PoleevBerlin - Zoologischer Garten by Andrej PoleevThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor
Enzymes book
18 books — 6 voters

The Laboratory of Poetry by Michel ChaouliWhy good things happen to bad people? by Vu M. DoLabyrinthus by N. Andrew WalshThe Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed by RacterSecrets of Doctor John Dee by Gordon James
•Bedappled In Adam's Apples
110 books — 6 voters
Forensic Linguistics by John OlssonWordcrime by John OlssonThe Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics by Malcolm CoulthardAn Introduction to Forensic Linguistics by Malcolm CoulthardForensic Linguistics by John Olsson
Forensic Linguistics (Non-Fiction)
14 books — 1 voter


Arika Okrent
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

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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