Best Books about Linguistics
102. 
Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans
by:
Derek Bickerton
3.99 avg rating — 359 ratings 
102. 
All About Words: An Adult Approach to Vocabulary Building
by:
Maxwell Nurnberg
3.98 avg rating — 168 ratings 
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The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel
by:
Nicholas Ostler
3.46 avg rating — 227 ratings 102. 
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts
by:
Andrew Robinson
4.12 avg rating — 493 ratings 
102. 
Spelling and Society: The Culture and Politics of Orthography around the World
by:
Mark Sebba
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings 102. 
Conversational Organization: Interaction Between Speakers and Hearers
by:
Charles Goodwin
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 115. 
Historische Grammatica van het Nederlands
by:
Moritz Schönfeld
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
115. 
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
by:
William Zinsser
4.24 avg rating — 30,212 ratings 115. 
The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics: Second Edition (Equinox Textbooks and Surveys in Linguistics)
by:
Keith Allan
3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings 115. 
The Last Word: Tales from the Tip of the Mother Tongue
by:
Ben Macintyre
3.84 avg rating — 116 ratings 
115. 
Translating Happiness: A Cross-Cultural Lexicon of Well-Being
by:
Tim Lomas
3.88 avg rating — 72 ratings 115. 
Language In Culture and Society: A Reader in Linguistics and Anthropology
by:
Dell H. Hymes
4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings 
128. 
Concessive Relation in Spoken Discourse: A Study into Academic Spoken English
by:
Andrzej Łyda
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 128. 
The Evil That Men Do: FBI Profiler Roy Hazelwood's Journey into the Minds of Sexual Predators 4.04 avg rating — 2,858 ratings
136. 
Language and Gender (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
by:
Penelope Eckert
3.66 avg rating — 119 ratings 136. 
Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide
by:
Josh Katz
4.18 avg rating — 1,283 ratings 
140. 
The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?
by:
Deborah Cameron
4.03 avg rating — 468 ratings 140. 
European Language Matters: English in Its European Context
by:
Peter Trudgill
3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings 140. 
Language and Social Identity (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, Series Number 2)
by:
John J. Gumperz
4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings 
145. 
Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon
by:
Barbara Cassin
4.54 avg rating — 70 ratings 145. 
The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language
by:
Albert Costa
3.84 avg rating — 1,183 ratings 
145. 
Directions in Sociolinguistics: The Ethnography of Communication
by:
John J. Gumperz
4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings 
151. 
Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach
by:
Dell H. Hymes
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 43 ratings 156. 
Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf 3.96 avg rating — 353 ratings
156. 
Language in Social Groups: Essays by John J. Gumperz
by:
John J. Gumperz
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 160. 
A Concise Guide To Psycholinguistics
by:
Stanislaw Puppel
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 160. 
Discourse Strategies (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, Series Number 1)
by:
John J. Gumperz
3.91 avg rating — 35 ratings 162. 
Language Universals (Janua Linguarum. Series Minor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
162. 
Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages
by:
Daniel Nettle
3.94 avg rating — 238 ratings 162. 
The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation
by:
Lawrence Venuti
3.80 avg rating — 264 ratings 162. 
The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
by:
John Pollack
3.68 avg rating — 1,893 ratings 
166. 
That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships
by:
Deborah Tannen
3.95 avg rating — 1,954 ratings 170. 
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When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge 3.96 avg rating — 457 ratings
170. 
The Language of Philosophy: Freud and Wittgenstein (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 55) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
174. 
Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics
by:
Ingrid Piller
4.34 avg rating — 35 ratings 174. 
174. 
Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
179. 
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages
by:
Roger D. Woodard
4.68 avg rating — 22 ratings 
179. 
Linguistics and Psychoanalysis: Freud, Saussure, Hjelmslev, Lacan and others
by:
Michel Arrivé
3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings 
183. 
Language Planning and National Development: The Uzbek Experience
by:
William Fierman
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 183. 
Symptom, Symbol, and the Other of Language: A Jungian Interpretation of the Linguistic Turn
by:
Bret Alderman
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 183. 
Crossing: Language and Ethnicity Among Adolescents (Real Language Series)
by:
Ben Rampton
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 187. 
Pengantar Sosiologi Sastra: Dari Strukturalisme Genetik sampai Post-modernisme
by:
Faruk H.T.
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 124 ratings 187. 
The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Typology (Oxford Handbooks)
by:
Jae Jung Song
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings 187. 
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? The Amazing Adventure of Translation
by:
David Bellos
3.77 avg rating — 2,759 ratings 187. 
191. 
When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse
by:
Ben Yagoda
3.75 avg rating — 396 ratings 191. 
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Directions in sociolinguistics;: The ethnography of communication
by:
John J. Gumperz
4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings 
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