30 Best

Linguistics Books

1

Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

2

In Other Words

3

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

4

The Kingdom of Speech

5

Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World

6

The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed

7

Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages

8

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

9

Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

10

Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca

11

Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe

12

You're Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words--And Their Tangled Histories of Misuse

13

feeld

14

Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

15

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

16

Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

17

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

18

The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language

19

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

20

The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention

21

Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

22

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English

23

Metaphors We Live By

24

Course in General Linguistics

25

In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language

26

How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die

27

An Introduction to Language

28

Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

29

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation