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Linguistics

  • March 4, 2025
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How Dead Languages Work
Forbidden Words
Grammar and Gender
Language Myths
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The Roots of Verbal Meaning

What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
A Clockwork Orange
Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
This Is the Voice
Beyond Words: Sobs, Hums, Stutters and Other Vocalizations
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The Stories of English

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How Language Works

The Story of English in 100 Words
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling, and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling
Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation
Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation
The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom
Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction
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Linguistics for Everyone

Lingo
Ella Minnow Pea
Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of Slang
Irish Grammar
Axiom's End
How We Talk
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing
D: A Tale of Two Worlds
The Greatest Invention
The Etymologicon
The Horologicon
Talking Hands
The Riddle of the Labyrinth
How Babies Talk: The Magic and Mystery of Language in the First Three Years of Life
Linguistics For Beginners
The Vulgar Tongue: Green's History of Slang
Talk on the Wild Side: The Untameable Nature of Language
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Meaning and Interpretation

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The Everyday Language of White Racism

Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths, and Profanity in English
Choice Words
Exactly What to Say
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Women Talk More Than Men

The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
Metaphors We Live By
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The Pragmatics of Politeness

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English with an Accent

Doublespeak
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The Story of English

Verbatim: From the bawdy to the sublime, the best writing on language for word lovers, grammar mavens, and armchair linguists
Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of a Pure Standard English
The Power of Babel
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
Myths, Lies and Half-Truths of Language Usage
The Language Hoax
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still
Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca
Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success
Holy Sh*t
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
The Story of French
In the Land of Invented Languages
Empires of the Word
Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land
Secret Life of Pronouns What Our Words Say about Us
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Making Sense of "Bad English"

The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language
Unruly Words: A Study of Vague Language
The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts
Yiddish in Israel: A History
Don't Believe a Word
The Language of Light: A History of Silent Voices
Latin Alive: The Survival of Latin in English and the Romance Languages
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

7 steps to raising a bilingual child
Will's words
That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships
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You Just Don't Understand

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Introducing Linguistics

The Wordhord
The Dictionary of Lost Words
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable
Hate Speech Law: A Philosophical Examination
Linguistics For Dummies
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English
Word origins
On Bullshit
Language, Capitalism, Colonialism: Toward a Critical History
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Words Matter

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