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M.I.T. Press Paperback Series #5: Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings
by Benjamin Lee Whorf
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The pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf (1897--1941) grasped the relationship between human language and human thinking: how language can shape our innermost thoughts. His basic thesis is that our perception of the world and our ways of thinking about it... (read more)

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Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans
by Derek Bickerton
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Language in Thought & Action 5TH Edition
by S I Hayakawa
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Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log
by Mark Liberman and Geoffrey K. Pullum
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Dialectology (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
by J K Chambers
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Psycholinguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
by Michael Garman
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Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions about Language
by Donna Jo Napoli
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The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar
by Mark C Baker
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Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Sciences of Language
by Oswald Ducrot
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Language Awareness
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Publication of the American Dialect Society #86: Milestone in the History of English in America
by Allen Walker Read
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Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun
by Liza Bakewell
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