Linguistics

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161 Books

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#102	On Cussing: Bad Words and Creative Cursing Katherine Dunn	0	0 reads
#103	The Prodigal Tongue The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English Lynne Murphy	1	0 reads
#104	The Fight for English: How language pundits ate, shot, and left David Crystal	0	0 reads
#105	I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World James Geary	0	0 reads
#106	Shady characters Keith Houston	4	11 reads
#107	Language vs. Reality N.J. Enfield	0	1 read
#108	Why Is This a Question? Why Is This a Question?: Everything About the Origins and Oddities of Language You Never Thought to Ask Paul Anthony Jones	4	1 read
#109	The First Signs Genevieve von Petzinger	0	0 reads
#110	Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends Ivan Brunetti David Wilton	0	0 reads
#111	Text Structure: A Window into Discourse, Context and Mind Nelly Tincheva	0	0 reads
#112	The F-Word	3	2 reads
#113	Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language Seth Lerer	0	1 read
#114	A Place For Everything A Place For Everything Judith Flanders	3.67	3 reads
#115	Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention Stanislas Dehaene	0	0 reads
#116	Essentials of Early English: An Introduction to Old, Middle, and Early Modern English Jeremy J. Smith	0	0 reads
#117	Language of the Third Reich: LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii Victor Klemperer	0	0 reads
#118	A History of German: What the Past Reveals about Today's Language Joseph Salmons	0	0 reads
#119	Pandexicon: How the Language of the Pandemic Defined Our New Cultural Reality Wayne Grady	0	0 reads
#120	Art in the Alphabet: A History of the Evolution of Hand Lettering Lewis Foreman Day	0	0 reads
#121	The Semiotics of Emoji: The Rise of Visual Language in the Age of the Internet Marcel Danesi	0	0 reads
#122	You Are What You Speak Robert Lane Greene	4	2 reads
#123	Words in Time and Place: Exploring Language Through the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary David Crystal	0	0 reads
#124	OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word Allan A. Metcalf	2	1 read
#125	The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase Mark Forsyth	4.33	30 reads
#126	A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution Dennis Baron	2	1 read
#127	The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary Simon Winchester	4	9 reads
#128	What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She Dennis Baron	4	3 reads
#129	The Mother Tongue Bill Bryson	3.86	82 reads
#130	Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever John McWhorter	3.93	25 reads
#131	Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary: Or Why Can't Anybody Spell Vivian Cook	0	0 reads
#132	A Natural History of Latin Tore Janson	0	0 reads
#133	An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language: Learn to Hear What's Left Unsaid Ali Almossawi	0	0 reads
#134	True or False: A CIA Analyst's Guide to Spotting Fake News Cindy L. Otis	3.67	3 reads
#135	Depraved and Insulting English Peter Novobatzky Ammon Shea	0	0 reads
#136	Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages Ammon Shea	0	0 reads
#137	Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation Ammon Shea	2.5	4 reads
#138	Rebel with a Clause Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Traveling Grammar Guru Ellen Jovin	0	1 read
#139	Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse Karen Sullivan	0	0 reads
#140	Making Sense Making Sense David Crystal	5	1 read
#141	As They Say in Zanzibar David Crystal	0	0 reads
#142	Hyphens & Hashtags: The Stories Behind the Symbols on Our Keyboard Claire Cock-Starkey	0	0 reads
#143	Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition Umberto Eco Alastair McEwen (Translator)	0	1 read
#144	Uncovering the Logic of English Denise Eide	5	1 read
#145	You Can't Always Say What You Want: The Paradox of Free Speech Dennis Baron	0	0 reads
#146	It ain't necessarily so Patricia T. O'Conner	3.67	4 reads
#147	N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law Jody Armour	0	0 reads
#148	Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English Valerie Fridland	0	1 read
#149	Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics—and How to Cure It Richard L. Hasen	4	1 read
#150	Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity Sander van der Linden	4	4 reads
#151	The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture David E. Fishman	0	0 reads
#152	The Story of Yiddish: How a Mish-Mosh of Languages Saved the Jews Neal Karlen	0	0 reads
#153	The Writing of the Gods Edward Dolnick	4.4	7 reads
#154	I the People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States Paul Elliott Johnson	0	0 reads
#155	Better Deeds than Words Georgina Guthrie	3	1 read
#156	The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World Charles Yang	0	1 read
#157	The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality Amanda Montell	3.53	53 reads
#158	Words on Fire: The Power of Incendiary Language and How to Confront It Helio Fred Garcia	0	0 reads
#159	The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages? Deborah Cameron	0	0 reads
#160	Languages Are Good For Us Sophie Hardach	0	0 reads
#161	Dogwhistles and Figleaves: How Manipulative Language Spreads Racism and Falsehood Jennifer Mather Saul	0	0 reads
#162	For Fck's Sake For Fck's Sake: Why Swearing is Shocking, Rude, and Fun Rebecca Roache	0	0 reads