Ling Lang Books
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 7,460 ratings — published 2010
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 7,018 ratings — published 1980
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 2,993 ratings — published 2009
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3,275 ratings — published 2001
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 13,354 ratings — published 2014
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 2,054 ratings — published 2015
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,333 ratings — published 2006
Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 2,411 ratings — published 2019
The Atoms Of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules Of Grammar (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 402 ratings — published 2001
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 106,609 ratings — published 2003
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 4,024 ratings — published 2007
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 4,089 ratings — published 2005
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 3,112 ratings — published 2005
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 22,597 ratings — published 1994
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 87,457 ratings — published 1918
Amo, Amas, Amat and More (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 193 ratings — published 1985
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 398 ratings — published 1943
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.31 — 1,023 ratings — published 2003
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 7,220 ratings — published 2008
The Five-Minute Linguist: Bite-Sized Essays on Language and Languages (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 184 ratings — published 2006
Psycholinguistics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 27 ratings — published
Bina: First Nations Languages, Old and New (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.55 — 20 ratings — published
Bad Language (Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy of Language)
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avg rating 3.81 — 21 ratings — published
The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron (Kodansha Globe)
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avg rating 3.86 — 201 ratings — published
Ää: Manifiestos sobre la diversidad lingüística (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.65 — 798 ratings — published
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 12,594 ratings — published 2011
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 31,126 ratings — published 1976
Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.60 — 1,540 ratings — published 2015
Langmaker: Celebrating Conlangs (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published
Enter Text Linguistics (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 1,466 ratings — published 2014
Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 387 ratings — published 1991
The Linguistics Wars (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 170 ratings — published 1993
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 1,053 ratings — published 2007
The Power of Babel: Language & Governance in the African Experience (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 10 ratings — published 1998
New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 212 ratings — published 1987
Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures (Perfect Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 365 ratings — published 1987
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 925 ratings — published 2023
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 1,889 ratings — published 2022
A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.20 — 10 ratings — published
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.94 — 4,378 ratings — published 2021
The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.44 — 739 ratings — published 2019
The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities: A Yearbook of Forgotten Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 172 ratings — published 2017
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 9,315 ratings — published 2017
Language Change: Progress or Decay? (Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics)
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avg rating 3.86 — 315 ratings — published 1980
The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 278 ratings — published 1976
The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs (Perfect Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 93 ratings — published 1998
Introducing Semiotics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 852 ratings — published 1993
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,370 ratings — published 2023
How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do—and What It Says About You (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 1,189 ratings — published 2020
