The most popular linguistics books of 2021

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 2021.

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Memory Speaks
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Memory Speaks

Julie Sedivy

Published 2021

432 pages

Exhausted on the Cross
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Exhausted on the Cross

Najwān Darwīsh, Kareem James Abu-Zeid, Raúl Zurita

Published 2021

144 pages

Phoolsunghi
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Phoolsunghi

Pandey Kapil

Published 2021

192 pages

Kin
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Kin

Miljenko Jergović, Russell Scott Valentino

Published 2021

877 pages

Acrobat
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Acrobat

Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Nandana Sen

Published 2021

120 pages

The Dog of Tithwal
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The Dog of Tithwal

Saadat Hasan Manto, Khalid Hasan, Aatish Taseer, muhammed Umar Memon, Vijay Seshadri

Published 2021

418 pages

Seneca The Literary Philosopher
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Seneca The Literary Philosopher

Seneca the Younger, Lucius Annaeus Senenca, Margaret Graver, A. A. Long

2021 · 2023 edition

322 pages