Linguistics

Linguistics is the science of language.

New Releases Tagged "Linguistics"

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
The Centre
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
The Centre
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
The Hero: The Enduring Myth That Makes Us Human
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
Femminili singolari: Il femminismo è nelle parole
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia
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
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Metaphors We Live By
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Course in General Linguistics (Open Court Classics)
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
An Introduction to Language
The Study of Language
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

Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de SaussureThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerThe Study of Language by George YuleAn Introduction to Language by Victoria A. FromkinMetaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
Best Books about Linguistics
248 books — 219 voters
Mind by Paul ThagardThe Cognitive Science of Science by Paul ThagardCognitive Science by José Luis Bermúdez
Cognitive Science (Academic)
3 books — 1 voter


R.F. Kuang
But what is the opposite of fidelity?' asked Professor Playfair. He was approaching the end of his dialitic; now he needed only to draw it to a close with a punch. 'Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, it means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So, where does that leave us? How can we conclude except by acknowledging that an act of translation is always an act of betrayal? ...more
R.F. Kuang, Babel: An Arcane History

David Crystal
The only languages which do not change are dead ones.
David Crystal

More quotes...
Pecinta Linguistik Indonesia Grup untuk para pecinta linguistik di Indonesia. Bisa bahas buku-buku linguistik (baik bahasa In…more
32 members, last active 7 years ago
Lexiconics Inventory of pretty and peculiar words, phrases and ideas. Lexiconic adjective 1. of or pertai…more
2 members, last active 8 years ago
Polyglots & Linguaphiles Browsing books on the languages of the world.
52 members, last active 7 years ago
UMass Linguistics This is a book group hosted by the UMass Boston Applied Linguistics department. While the group …more
96 members, last active one year ago

Tags

Tags contributing to this page include: linguistics and linguistic