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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,583 ratings — published 1994
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,684 ratings — published 1916
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,082 ratings — published 2005
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.23 — 28,653 ratings — published 2019
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,214 ratings — published 2008
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,596 ratings — published 2019
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,232 ratings — published 2018
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,445 ratings — published 2010
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,109 ratings — published 2005
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,003 ratings — published 1980
Language and Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,328 ratings — published 1968
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,722 ratings — published 2014
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,578 ratings — published 2011
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,272 ratings — published 2001
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,236 ratings — published 2007
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,443 ratings — published 1990
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.14 — 489,986 ratings — published 2022
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,300 ratings — published 2017
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.80 — 120,279 ratings — published 2021
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,310 ratings — published 2007
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,563 ratings — published 2003
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.15 — 638 ratings — published 1975
Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.96 — 363 ratings — published 1956
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,462 ratings — published 2014
Le français est à nous ! Petit manuel d’émancipation linguistique (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.54 — 189 ratings — published
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,417 ratings — published 2012
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)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,990 ratings — published 2009
Potere alle parole. Perché usarle meglio (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,373 ratings — published 2019
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,557 ratings — published 2012
How to Do Things with Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,651 ratings — published 1955
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,050 ratings — published 2015
Femminili singolari: Il femminismo è nelle parole (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,723 ratings — published 2019
La lingua geniale: 9 ragioni per amare il greco (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,531 ratings — published 2016
Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.30 — 643 ratings — published 2000
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,011 ratings — published 2007
The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.91 — 252 ratings — published 1994
How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.80 — 868 ratings — published 1991
Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.95 — 911 ratings — published 2012
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,290 ratings — published 2014
Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,820 ratings — published 2014
Seeing Voices (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,236 ratings — published 1989
The Study of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,321 ratings — published 1985
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,055 ratings — published 2007
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,801 ratings — published 2011
Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.29 — 211 ratings — published 1992
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.84 — 122,245 ratings — published 1998
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,862 ratings — published 1990
Speaking in Tongues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.71 — 225 ratings — published 2025
1100 Words You Need to Know (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistic)
avg rating 4.11 — 500 ratings — published 2000
Val più la pratica: Piccola grammatica immorale della lingua italiana (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as linguistic)
avg rating 3.28 — 46 ratings — published 2009
“Every world has its distinct lingo,
you gotta catch the right chord.
Same language evokes different feelings,
based on time and age of the world.”
― The Divine Refugee
you gotta catch the right chord.
Same language evokes different feelings,
based on time and age of the world.”
― The Divine Refugee
“Language could be used as an instrument of control, a way of establishing hierarchies that suggest one set of people is better or more special than another. Through language, one automatically identifies one's place within a social and cultural hierarchy and we all carry with us illogical attitudes about the bearers of particular language, based on our own cultural background and continued exposure to local political ideals.”
― Left to Right: The Cultural Shift from Words to Pictures
― Left to Right: The Cultural Shift from Words to Pictures
