Calling Bullshit The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World
Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West
2020 · 2021 edition
336 pages
The most popular linguistics books of 2020
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. How sounds, words and sentences are built, how children learn to speak, how languages change and how they shape thought are its questions. Popular introductions sit here beside textbooks for students of the field. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.
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The Lost Spells
Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris
Published 2020
240 pages
Word Perfect Etymological Entertainment for Every Day of the Year
Susie Dent
2020 · 2022 edition
416 pages
What's Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She
Dennis Baron
2020 · 2021 edition
320 pages
The Bilingual Brain And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language
Albert Costa
Published 2020
176 pages
Fifty Words for Snow
Nancy Campbell
2020 · 2021 edition
224 pages
Pretty Bitches On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women
Lizzie Skurnick
Published 2020
320 pages
Suppose a Sentence
Brian Dillon
2020 · 2021 edition
192 pages
Linguistic Justice
April Baker-Bell
Published 2020
148 pages
The Language of Thieves
Martin Puchner
Published 2020
288 pages
Frank Ramsey A Sheer Excess of Powers
Cheryl J. Misak
2020 · 2022 edition
544 pages
The Friendship Poems of Rumi Translated by Nader Khalili
Rumi, Nader Khalili
Published 2020
128 pages
How to Drink
Vincent Obsopoeus
Published 2020
192 pages
The Language Lover's Puzzle Book A World Tour of Languages and Alphabets in 100 Amazing Puzzles
Alex Bellos
2020 · 2021 edition
416 pages
So to Speak 11,000 Expressions That'll Knock Your Socks Off
Shirley Kobliner, Harold Kobliner
Published 2020
288 pages
How to Be Content An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess
Stephen Harrison, Horace
Published 2020
256 pages
How Dead Languages Work
Coulter H. George
Published 2020
224 pages
25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way
Geraldine Woods
Published 2020
256 pages
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
Ilan Stavans, Josh Lambert
2020 · 2023 edition
512 pages
The Language Warrior's Manifesto How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds
Anton Treuer
Published 2020
184 pages
Beginning with New Testament Greek
Benjamin L. Merkle, Robert L. Plummer
Published 2020
416 pages
Three Brothers
Yan Lianke
2020 · 2021 edition
223 pages
The Promise That Changes Everything I Won't Interrupt You
Nancy Kline
2020 · 2021 edition
256 pages
Ovid A Very Short Introduction
Llewelyn Morgan
Published 2020
120 pages