Lingustics


The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
The Story of Human Language
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
Course in General Linguistics
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
Culture, Language, and Personality: Selected Writings
Christopher Hitchens
I was extremely shy of approaching my hero but he, as I found out, was sorely in need of company. By then almost completely blind, he was claustrated and even a little confused and this may help explain the rather shocking attitude that he took to the blunt trauma that was being inflicted in the streets and squares around him. 'This was my country and it might be yet,' he intoned to me when the topic first came up, as it had to: 'But something came between it and the sun.' This couplet he claime ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir