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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 1013 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,426 ratings — published 1994
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 570 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,300 ratings — published 2010
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 502 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,209 ratings — published 2001
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 485 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,409 ratings — published 2019
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 433 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,034 ratings — published 2005
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 419 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,839 ratings — published 1980
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 417 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,182 ratings — published 2007
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 385 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,073 ratings — published 2005
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 362 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,615 ratings — published 1916
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 349 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,152 ratings — published 2008
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 345 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 43,957 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 291 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,972 ratings — published 2009
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 284 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,285 ratings — published 2011
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,007 ratings — published 2015
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 238 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 27,160 ratings — published 2019
The Study of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,280 ratings — published 1985
An Introduction to Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,376 ratings — published 1974
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 226 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.81 — 114,330 ratings — published 2021
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,325 ratings — published 2006
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,432 ratings — published 2014
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 213 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,635 ratings — published 2014
Syntactic Structures (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 894 ratings — published 1957
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 199 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,244 ratings — published 2003
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,105 ratings — published 1987
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,900 ratings — published 2007
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,010 ratings — published 2008
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,922 ratings — published 1999
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,776 ratings — published 2014
Language and Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,310 ratings — published 1968
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,137 ratings — published 2018
On Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,062 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 3.78 — 2,778 ratings — published 2011
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,155 ratings — published 2017
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 121,303 ratings — published 1998
Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 378 ratings — published 1991
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
by (shelved 141 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,100 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 3.89 — 794 ratings — published 2011
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,428 ratings — published 2004
A Course in Phonetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 477 ratings — published 1975
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,053 ratings — published 2007
Language Myths (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,320 ratings — published 1998
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
by (shelved 126 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,937 ratings — published 2016
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.15 — 442,202 ratings — published 2022
Syntax: A Generative Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.86 — 451 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 — 15,948 ratings — published 1994
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,334 ratings — published 2012
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,530 ratings — published 2011
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,158 ratings — published 2014
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.30 — 993 ratings — published 2003
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.36 — 659 ratings — published 1987
“In Beachcomber’s hilarious columns about the Apostropher Royal in The Express, a certain perversely comforting law is often reiterated: the Law of Conservation of Apostrophes. A heresy since the 13th century, this law states that a balance exists in nature: "For every apostrophe omitted from an it’s, there is an extra one put into an its." Thus the number of apostrophes in circulation remains constant, even if this means we have double the reason to go and bang our heads against a wall.”
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
“...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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