You Are What You Speak

You Are What You Speak

By
Robert Lane Greene
Robert Lane Greene
2011 • 312 pages

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63 books

At Home Tbr

Helenmelon
Melon
Am I There Yet? The Loop-de-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood
Scars of Independence
Literally Me
Why I am Not A Feminist
Sex and the Constitution
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
All the Single Ladies

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822 books

Nonfiction

christinared
Christina
Under the Banner of Heaven
The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
An American Requiem
A Fair Country
The Happiness Project
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
In Search of Grace

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40 books

Language Criticism

christinared
Christina
Why We Read What We Read
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Story of Spanish
Tolstoy and the purple chair my year of magical reading
The Reading Promise
The Story of French
Reading "Lolita" In Tehran

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257 books

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FetesandFika
Amanda
Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
10% Less Democracy
Zoom
Starquake
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
La Fee Carabine

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13 books

Linguistics

FetesandFika
Amanda
Shady characters
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
The Spell of the Sensuous
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
Six Names of Beauty
The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
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790 books

Sociology Anthropology

spiritomb
Spiritomb
Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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161 books

Linguistics

spiritomb
Spiritomb
How Dead Languages Work
Forbidden Words
Grammar and Gender
Language Myths
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

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19 books

Sociolinguistics

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Spiritomb
Language of the Third Reich: LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii
You Are What You Speak
OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word
Language, Capitalism, Colonialism: Toward a Critical History