Semantics


Language in Thought and Action
Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
Semantics
Semantics in Generative Grammar
Metaphors We Live By
The Tyranny of Words
Philosophical Investigations
People in Quandaries: The Semantics of Personal Adjustment
Manhood of Humanity: The Science and Art of Human Engineering (Classic Reprint)
Drive Yourself Sane : Using the Uncommon Sense of General Semantics
Analyzing meaning
Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics (English and Polish Edition)
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.On Writing by Stephen  KingOn Becoming a Novelist by John GardnerInto the Woods by John YorkeWrite for Life by Julia Cameron
How to Not Suck at Writing
48 books — 19 voters
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
256 books — 224 voters

Michael Pollan
He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.
Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

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