Linguistics

Linguistics is the science of language.

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How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
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The Language of Liars
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink
Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland
The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell
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 Book on How Thousands of Tongues Evolved from One Source
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
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect 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

Kory Stamper
We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don't want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets. We dress it in fancy clothes and tell it to behave, and it comes home with its underwear on its head and wearing someone else's socks. As English grows, it lives its own life, and this is right and healthy. Sometim ...more
Kory Stamper, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries

Ludwig Wittgenstein
An entire mythology is stored within our language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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This group is for anyone with an interest in general linguistics, not learning a second language…more
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