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Linguistics

Linguistics is the science of language.

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The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
Wordhunter
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
Rebel With A Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog
How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do—and What It Says About You
Magic Words
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Metaphors We Live By
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Course in General Linguistics
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building
The Study of Language
Jamaica Talk by Frederic Gomes CassidyThe Power of Babel by Michel PierssensGrossman's Glossary of Every Humorous Word in the English Lan... by Richard GrossmanStrange Linguistics by Mark NewbrookMissing the Meaning? by David    Howard
•Tongue Hatches
100 books — 3 voters
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Linguistically refreshing!
6 books — 1 voter

Конституционный строй в России. by Андрей ПолеевEssays and Letters. by Andrej PoleevBerlin - Zoologischer Garten by Andrej PoleevStrange case. by Andrej PoleevHarvest. by Andrej Poleev
Enzymes book
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Man Made Language by Dale SpenderLanguage and Woman's Place by Robin Tolmach LakoffPronoun Envy by Anna LiviaLanguage and Gender by Penelope EckertLanguage, gender, and society by Cheris; Henley Kramarae
Feminist linguistics
38 books — 4 voters

The Republic by PlatoThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnThe Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge
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Best Popular Anthropology Books
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David Foster Wallace
...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. ...more
David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Mark Twain
There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome.
Mark Twain, The Awful German Language / Die schreckliche deutsche Sprache

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