Free language & linguistics books

Language and linguistics books are for people who love words. Learn a new language, understand how language works and changes over time, or improve your own writing. There are courses, grammars, popular linguistics and style guides. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free.

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Aristophanes Clouds
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Aristophanes Clouds

Aristophanes, Lewis Leaming Forman, Milton W. B. 1844 Humphreys

1885 · 1892 edition

264 pages

Language and power
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Language and power

Benedict R. O'G. Anderson

1991 · 2006 edition

305 pages

Cornelius Nepos
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Cornelius Nepos

Cornelius Nepos

Published 1872

422 pages

How the world changed social media
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How the world changed social media

Elisabetta Costa (Anthropologist), Nell Haynes, Daniel Miller, Razvan Nicolescu, Jolynna Sinanan

Published 2016

262 pages

English traits
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English traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Published 1883

308 pages

London, a Pilgrimage
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London, a Pilgrimage

Gustare Dore, Jerrold Blonchard

Published 1890

336 pages

Speaker's Meaning
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Speaker's Meaning

Owen Barfield

1881 · 1887 edition

118 pages