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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 1033 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,586 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 — 7,449 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 496 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,600 ratings — published 2019
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 434 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,009 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 — 4,085 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 — 11,237 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 369 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,687 ratings — published 1916
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 354 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,215 ratings — published 2008
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 346 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,449 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 — 12,580 ratings — published 2011
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 253 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 28,683 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 — 120,411 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 — 1,464 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 — 106,569 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 — 4,013 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 — 13,301 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 — 6,165 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 — 2,803 ratings — published 2011
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,302 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 — 122,273 ratings — published 1998
Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 385 ratings — published 1991
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
by (shelved 144 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,138 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 — 490,823 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 — 3,103 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 — 16,091 ratings — published 1994
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,418 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, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.”
― The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
― The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
“Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God, the dew on a fresh apple, it's the soft rain of dust that falls into a shaft of morning sun when you pull from an old bookshelf a forgotten volume of erotic diaries; language is the faint scent of urine on a pair of boxer shorts, it's a half-remembered childhood birthday party, a creak on the stair, a spluttering match held to a frosted pane, the warm wet, trusting touch of a leaking nappy, the hulk of a charred Panzer, the underside of a granite boulder, the first downy growth on the upper lip of a Mediterranean girl, cobwebs long since overrun by an old Wellington boot.”
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