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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 1033 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,585 ratings — published 1994
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 587 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,447 ratings — published 2010
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve (Paperback)
by (shelved 515 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,273 ratings — published 2001
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 497 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,597 ratings — published 2019
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 433 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,006 ratings — published 1980
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 431 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,083 ratings — published 2005
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 416 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,236 ratings — published 2007
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 389 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,109 ratings — published 2005
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 368 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,685 ratings — published 1916
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 354 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,214 ratings — published 2008
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 346 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,447 ratings — published 1990
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 295 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,990 ratings — published 2009
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 288 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,579 ratings — published 2011
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 253 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 28,661 ratings — published 2019
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,050 ratings — published 2015
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.80 — 120,317 ratings — published 2021
The Study of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,321 ratings — published 1985
An Introduction to Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,383 ratings — published 1974
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 230 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,332 ratings — published 2006
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,463 ratings — published 2014
Syntactic Structures (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 903 ratings — published 1957
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 211 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,722 ratings — published 2014
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,564 ratings — published 2003
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 199 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,012 ratings — published 2007
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,293 ratings — published 2014
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,114 ratings — published 1987
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,161 ratings — published 2008
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,935 ratings — published 1999
Language and Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,328 ratings — published 1968
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 179 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,232 ratings — published 2018
On Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,077 ratings — published 1998
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,802 ratings — published 2011
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,299 ratings — published 2017
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 122,254 ratings — published 1998
Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 384 ratings — published 1991
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
by (shelved 144 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,137 ratings — published 2004
What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.90 — 801 ratings — published 2011
A Course in Phonetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 483 ratings — published 1975
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,438 ratings — published 2004
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,055 ratings — published 2007
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.14 — 490,240 ratings — published 2022
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
by (shelved 132 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,953 ratings — published 2016
Language Myths (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,331 ratings — published 1998
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,082 ratings — published 2025
Syntax: A Generative Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.87 — 452 ratings — published 2002
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,090 ratings — published 1994
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,417 ratings — published 2012
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,570 ratings — published 2011
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.31 — 1,023 ratings — published 2003
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,263 ratings — published 2014
“Language disguises thought.”
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and how he "expresses himself" have been thrown into big time flux.”
― Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
― Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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