Linguistics

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

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

Would you like to find new words to use in your speech and writing? Would you like to be a fascinating conversationalist? Would you like to be a Scrabble expert? This book is for you....

With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience, and sheer fun of the English language....

Benny Lewis is the creator of www.fluentin3months.com, the largest language learning blog in the world....

A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar....

Language evolves with time, and so does what we consider profane or unspeakable. Nine Nasty Words is a rollicking examination of profanity, explored from every angle: historical, sociological, political, linguistic....

Linguistics, the study of language, has a reputation for being complex and inaccessible....

Many features of English sound normal to a native speaker, but linguists find them puzzling as well as revealing....

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

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

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

Returning to the "Aunt Hill" from a two-year trip around the world, 20-year-old Rose Campbell suddenly finds herself surrounded by male admirers, all expecting her to marry them....

Noam Chomsky is known and admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection....

This course offers an overview of the English language that is literary, historical, cultural, political, and scientific in its scope....

Julie and Jean-Benoît explain why, culturally and historically, conversation with the French is not about communicating or being nice. It's about being interesting....

Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Find out more....

From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies....

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....

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