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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 1022 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,443 ratings — published 1994
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 569 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,325 ratings — published 2010
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 505 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,219 ratings — published 2001
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 488 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,427 ratings — published 2019
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 434 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,041 ratings — published 2005
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 419 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,861 ratings — published 1980
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 419 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,187 ratings — published 2007
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 384 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,076 ratings — published 2005
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 361 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,622 ratings — published 1916
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,168 ratings — published 2008
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 345 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,011 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 292 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,975 ratings — published 2009
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 285 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,338 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 241 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,012 ratings — published 2015
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 240 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.23 — 27,359 ratings — published 2019
The Study of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,289 ratings — published 1985
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 228 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.81 — 115,173 ratings — published 2021
An Introduction to Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,381 ratings — published 1974
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 — 1,328 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 — 1,437 ratings — published 2014
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 213 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,652 ratings — published 2014
Syntactic Structures (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 898 ratings — published 1957
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,277 ratings — published 2003
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 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 194 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,911 ratings — published 2007
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,043 ratings — published 2008
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,848 ratings — published 2014
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,925 ratings — published 1999
Language and Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,313 ratings — published 1968
On Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,067 ratings — published 1998
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,147 ratings — published 2018
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,788 ratings — published 2011
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,180 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 — 121,445 ratings — published 1998
Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.97 — 379 ratings — published 1991
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
by (shelved 141 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,102 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 — 793 ratings — published 2011
A Course in Phonetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.11 — 480 ratings — published 1975
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,054 ratings — published 2007
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,431 ratings — published 2004
Language Myths (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,323 ratings — published 1998
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.15 — 449,970 ratings — published 2022
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 — 1,939 ratings — published 2016
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 — 15,965 ratings — published 1994
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,347 ratings — published 2012
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,532 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 — 9,174 ratings — published 2014
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as linguistics)
avg rating 3.30 — 998 ratings — published 2003
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as linguistics)
avg rating 4.36 — 659 ratings — published 1987
“Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour and serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.”
― Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
― Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
“There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were.”
― Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
― Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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