Linguistics

The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power....

Learn how a single tongue spoken 150,000 years ago evolved into the estimated 6,000 languages used around the world today....

A brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us, written with humor and playfulness that challenges words and phrases and how we use them....

In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land....

Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison - a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world...

In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language....

Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977 - with his wife and three young children - intending to convert them....

This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

Perhaps Dickens' ultimate vision of a dark, macabre London and the corrupting power of money....

Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language and why that's a good thing....

This collection of short stories describes the people that comprise a typical but fictional small town in Ontario - Mariposa....

In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure, and the downright surprising....

Words on the Move opens our eyes to the surprising backstories to the words and expressions we use every day....

Whether it’s brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning....

With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant....

An entertaining and highly informed guide to what languages are and how they function: In Don't Believe a Word, linguist David Shariatmadari explodes nine common myths about language and introduces us to some of the fundamental insights of modern linguistics....

Bad English is sure to enlighten, enrage, and perhaps even inspire. Filled with historic and contemporary examples, the audiobook chronicles the long and entertaining history of language mistakes....

In this follow-up to Nesbit’s classic Five Children and It, Cyril, Robert, Anthea, Jane, and the Lamb have more magical adventures in store when a mysterious egg hatches in the nursery fireplace....

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Learn more in this audiobook....

For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature....