Linguistics

March 4, 2025
161 Books
Stats

Position	Details	Readers Count
#2	How Dead Languages Work Coulter H. George	2 reads
#3	Forbidden Words Keith Allan	0 reads
#4	Grammar and Gender Dennis Baron	0 reads
#5	Language Myths	1 read
#6	The Roots of Verbal Meaning The Roots of Verbal Meaning John Beavers Andrew Koontz-Garboden	0 reads
#7	What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves Benjamin K. Bergen	3 reads
#8	Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States Bill Bryson	40 reads
#9	A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess	699 reads
#10	Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language Emma Byrne	2 reads
#11	This Is the Voice John Colapinto	3 reads
#12	Beyond Words: Sobs, Hums, Stutters and Other Vocalizations Steven Connor	0 reads
#13	The Stories of English The Stories of English David Crystal	1 read
#14	How Language Works How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die David Crystal	1 read
#15	The Story of English in 100 Words David Crystal	5 reads
#16	The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language David Crystal	2 reads
#17	Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling, and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling David Crystal	1 read
#18	Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation David Crystal	0 reads
#19	Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation David Crystal	0 reads
#20	The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom	0 reads
#21	Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction Kristin Denham Anne Lobeck	0 reads
#22	Linguistics for Everyone Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction, 2nd Edition Kristin Denham	0 reads
#23	Lingo Gaston Dorren Alison Edwards (Translator)	8 reads
#24	Ella Minnow Pea Mark Dunn	96 reads
#25	Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of Slang Max Décharné	0 reads
#26	Irish Grammar Éamonn Ó Dónaill	0 reads
#27	Axiom's End Lindsay Ellis	153 reads
#28	How We Talk N.J. Enfield	0 reads
#29	Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners Michael Erard	4 reads
#30	Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing Martin Erwig	1 read
#31	D: A Tale of Two Worlds Michel Faber	8 reads
#32	The Greatest Invention Silvia Ferrara	0 reads
#33	The Etymologicon Mark Forsyth	23 reads
#34	The Horologicon Mark Forsyth	6 reads
#35	Talking Hands Margalit Fox	2 reads
#36	The Riddle of the Labyrinth Margalit Fox	8 reads
#37	How Babies Talk: The Magic and Mystery of Language in the First Three Years of Life Roberta Michnick Golinkoff Kathy Hirsh-Pasek	0 reads
#38	Linguistics For Beginners W. Terrence Gordon	0 reads
#39	The Vulgar Tongue: Green's History of Slang Jonathon Green	0 reads
#40	Talk on the Wild Side: The Untameable Nature of Language Lane Greene	0 reads
#41	Meaning and Interpretation Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge Garry L. Hagberg	0 reads
#42	The Everyday Language of White Racism The Everyday Language of White Racism Jane H. Hill	1 read
#43	Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths, and Profanity in English Geoffrey Hughes	0 reads
#44	Choice Words Peter H. Johnston	0 reads
#45	Exactly What to Say Phil M. Jones	16 reads
#46	Women Talk More Than Men Women Talk More Than Men: ... And Other Myths about Language Explained Abby Kaplan	0 reads
#47	The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language Christine Kenneally	1 read
#48	Metaphors We Live By George Lakoff Mark Johnson	18 reads
#49	The Pragmatics of Politeness The Pragmatics of Politeness Geoffrey N. Leech	0 reads
#50	English with an Accent English with an Accent: Language, Ideology and Discrimination in the United States Rosina Lippi-Green	0 reads
#51	Doublespeak William D. Lutz	0 reads
#52	The Story of English The Story of English Robert McCrum Robert MacNeil	3 reads
#53	Verbatim: From the bawdy to the sublime, the best writing on language for word lovers, grammar mavens, and armchair linguists	0 reads
#54	Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of a Pure Standard English John McWhorter	0 reads
#55	The Power of Babel John McWhorter	11 reads
#56	Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue John McWhorter	23 reads
#57	Myths, Lies and Half-Truths of Language Usage John McWhorter	2 reads
#58	The Language Hoax John McWhorter	9 reads
#59	Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still John McWhorter	10 reads
#60	Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca John McWhorter	2 reads
#61	Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success Allan Metcalf Professor	0 reads
#62	Holy Sh*t Melissa Mohr	6 reads
#63	Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism Amanda Montell	233 reads
#64	Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language Amanda Montell	64 reads
#65	The Story of French Jean-Benoît Nadeau Julie Barlow	2 reads
#66	In the Land of Invented Languages Arika Okrent	9 reads
#67	Empires of the Word Nicholas Ostler	6 reads
#68	Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land Nick Thorkelson Nathaniel Buchwald Allen Lewis Rickman Joel Schechter Sharon Rudahl Danny Fingeroth Barry Deutsch Marvin Friedman Dave Wagner Peter Kuper Sabrina Jones Hershl Hartman	1 read
#69	Secret Life of Pronouns What Our Words Say about Us James W. Pennebaker	10 reads
#70	Making Sense of "Bad English" Making Sense of "Bad English": An Introduction to Language Attitudes and Ideologies Elizabeth Peterson	0 reads
#71	The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language Geoffrey K. Pullum	0 reads
#72	Unruly Words: A Study of Vague Language Diana Raffman	0 reads
#73	The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris Andrew Robinson Stephen F. Eisenman	1 read
#74	Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts Andrew Robinson	0 reads
#75	Yiddish in Israel: A History Rachel Rojanski	0 reads
#76	Don't Believe a Word David Shariatmadari	1 read
#77	The Language of Light: A History of Silent Voices Gerald Shea	0 reads
#78	Latin Alive: The Survival of Latin in English and the Romance Languages Joseph B. Solodow	0 reads
#79	Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries Kory Stamper	30 reads
#80	How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish	1 read
#81	7 steps to raising a bilingual child Naomi Steiner	0 reads
#82	Will's words Jane Sutcliffe	0 reads
#83	That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships Deborah Tannen	0 reads
#84	You Just Don't Understand You Just Don't Understand Deborah Tannen	0 reads
#85	Introducing Linguistics Introducing Linguistics: A Graphic Guide R.L. Trask Bill Mayblin	2 reads
#86	The Wordhord Hana Videen	1 read
#87	The Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams	59 reads
#88	The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary Simon Winchester	99 reads
#89	Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein Charles Kay Ogden (Translator)	44 reads
#90	Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain Maryanne Wolf	17 reads
#91	Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It Gabriel Wyner	48 reads
#92	Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable Eviatar Zerubavel	0 reads
#93	Hate Speech Law: A Philosophical Examination Alexander Brown	0 reads
#94	Linguistics For Dummies Rose-Marie Dechaine Strang Burton Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson	0 reads
#95	Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language Gretchen McCulloch	74 reads
#96	Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English Philip Durkin	0 reads
#97	Word origins John Ayto	0 reads
#98	On Bullshit Harry G. Frankfurt	49 reads
#99	Language, Capitalism, Colonialism: Toward a Critical History Monica Heller Bonnie Mcelhinny	0 reads
#100	Words Matter Words Matter: Meaning and Power Sally McConnell-Ginet	0 reads
#101	Keywords Keywords John Patrick Leary	0 reads

Position	Details	Readers Count
#2	How Dead Languages Work Coulter H. George	2 reads
#3	Forbidden Words Keith Allan	0 reads
#4	Grammar and Gender Dennis Baron	0 reads
#5	Language Myths	1 read
#6	The Roots of Verbal Meaning The Roots of Verbal Meaning John Beavers Andrew Koontz-Garboden	0 reads
#7	What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves Benjamin K. Bergen	3 reads
#8	Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States Bill Bryson	40 reads
#9	A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess	699 reads
#10	Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language Emma Byrne	2 reads
#11	This Is the Voice John Colapinto	3 reads
#12	Beyond Words: Sobs, Hums, Stutters and Other Vocalizations Steven Connor	0 reads
#13	The Stories of English The Stories of English David Crystal	1 read
#14	How Language Works How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die David Crystal	1 read
#15	The Story of English in 100 Words David Crystal	5 reads
#16	The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language David Crystal	2 reads
#17	Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling, and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling David Crystal	1 read
#18	Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation David Crystal	0 reads
#19	Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation David Crystal	0 reads
#20	The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom	0 reads
#21	Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction Kristin Denham Anne Lobeck	0 reads
#22	Linguistics for Everyone Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction, 2nd Edition Kristin Denham	0 reads
#23	Lingo Gaston Dorren Alison Edwards (Translator)	8 reads
#24	Ella Minnow Pea Mark Dunn	96 reads
#25	Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of Slang Max Décharné	0 reads
#26	Irish Grammar Éamonn Ó Dónaill	0 reads
#27	Axiom's End Lindsay Ellis	153 reads
#28	How We Talk N.J. Enfield	0 reads
#29	Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners Michael Erard	4 reads
#30	Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing Martin Erwig	1 read
#31	D: A Tale of Two Worlds Michel Faber	8 reads
#32	The Greatest Invention Silvia Ferrara	0 reads
#33	The Etymologicon Mark Forsyth	23 reads
#34	The Horologicon Mark Forsyth	6 reads
#35	Talking Hands Margalit Fox	2 reads
#36	The Riddle of the Labyrinth Margalit Fox	8 reads
#37	How Babies Talk: The Magic and Mystery of Language in the First Three Years of Life Roberta Michnick Golinkoff Kathy Hirsh-Pasek	0 reads
#38	Linguistics For Beginners W. Terrence Gordon	0 reads
#39	The Vulgar Tongue: Green's History of Slang Jonathon Green	0 reads
#40	Talk on the Wild Side: The Untameable Nature of Language Lane Greene	0 reads
#41	Meaning and Interpretation Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge Garry L. Hagberg	0 reads
#42	The Everyday Language of White Racism The Everyday Language of White Racism Jane H. Hill	1 read
#43	Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths, and Profanity in English Geoffrey Hughes	0 reads
#44	Choice Words Peter H. Johnston	0 reads
#45	Exactly What to Say Phil M. Jones	16 reads
#46	Women Talk More Than Men Women Talk More Than Men: ... And Other Myths about Language Explained Abby Kaplan	0 reads
#47	The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language Christine Kenneally	1 read
#48	Metaphors We Live By George Lakoff Mark Johnson	18 reads
#49	The Pragmatics of Politeness The Pragmatics of Politeness Geoffrey N. Leech	0 reads
#50	English with an Accent English with an Accent: Language, Ideology and Discrimination in the United States Rosina Lippi-Green	0 reads
#51	Doublespeak William D. Lutz	0 reads
#52	The Story of English The Story of English Robert McCrum Robert MacNeil	3 reads
#53	Verbatim: From the bawdy to the sublime, the best writing on language for word lovers, grammar mavens, and armchair linguists	0 reads
#54	Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of a Pure Standard English John McWhorter	0 reads
#55	The Power of Babel John McWhorter	11 reads
#56	Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue John McWhorter	23 reads
#57	Myths, Lies and Half-Truths of Language Usage John McWhorter	2 reads
#58	The Language Hoax John McWhorter	9 reads
#59	Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still John McWhorter	10 reads
#60	Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca John McWhorter	2 reads
#61	Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success Allan Metcalf Professor	0 reads
#62	Holy Sh*t Melissa Mohr	6 reads
#63	Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism Amanda Montell	233 reads
#64	Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language Amanda Montell	64 reads
#65	The Story of French Jean-Benoît Nadeau Julie Barlow	2 reads
#66	In the Land of Invented Languages Arika Okrent	9 reads
#67	Empires of the Word Nicholas Ostler	6 reads
#68	Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land Nick Thorkelson Nathaniel Buchwald Allen Lewis Rickman Joel Schechter Sharon Rudahl Danny Fingeroth Barry Deutsch Marvin Friedman Dave Wagner Peter Kuper Sabrina Jones Hershl Hartman	1 read
#69	Secret Life of Pronouns What Our Words Say about Us James W. Pennebaker	10 reads
#70	Making Sense of "Bad English" Making Sense of "Bad English": An Introduction to Language Attitudes and Ideologies Elizabeth Peterson	0 reads
#71	The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language Geoffrey K. Pullum	0 reads
#72	Unruly Words: A Study of Vague Language Diana Raffman	0 reads
#73	The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris Andrew Robinson Stephen F. Eisenman	1 read
#74	Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts Andrew Robinson	0 reads
#75	Yiddish in Israel: A History Rachel Rojanski	0 reads
#76	Don't Believe a Word David Shariatmadari	1 read
#77	The Language of Light: A History of Silent Voices Gerald Shea	0 reads
#78	Latin Alive: The Survival of Latin in English and the Romance Languages Joseph B. Solodow	0 reads
#79	Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries Kory Stamper	30 reads
#80	How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish	1 read
#81	7 steps to raising a bilingual child Naomi Steiner	0 reads
#82	Will's words Jane Sutcliffe	0 reads
#83	That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships Deborah Tannen	0 reads
#84	You Just Don't Understand You Just Don't Understand Deborah Tannen	0 reads
#85	Introducing Linguistics Introducing Linguistics: A Graphic Guide R.L. Trask Bill Mayblin	2 reads
#86	The Wordhord Hana Videen	1 read
#87	The Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams	59 reads
#88	The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary Simon Winchester	99 reads
#89	Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein Charles Kay Ogden (Translator)	44 reads
#90	Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain Maryanne Wolf	17 reads
#91	Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It Gabriel Wyner	48 reads
#92	Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable Eviatar Zerubavel	0 reads
#93	Hate Speech Law: A Philosophical Examination Alexander Brown	0 reads
#94	Linguistics For Dummies Rose-Marie Dechaine Strang Burton Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson	0 reads
#95	Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language Gretchen McCulloch	74 reads
#96	Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English Philip Durkin	0 reads
#97	Word origins John Ayto	0 reads
#98	On Bullshit Harry G. Frankfurt	49 reads
#99	Language, Capitalism, Colonialism: Toward a Critical History Monica Heller Bonnie Mcelhinny	0 reads
#100	Words Matter Words Matter: Meaning and Power Sally McConnell-Ginet	0 reads
#101	Keywords Keywords John Patrick Leary	0 reads

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