The most popular linguistics books of 2026

Constructions of Risks to Life in News Media

Rakan Alibri

The Semiotics of the Zodiac Signs of Destiny

Marcel Danesi

Micronesian Englishes

Kazuko Matsumoto, David Britain, Dominique Hess, Tobias Leonhardt, Sara Lynch

Lay (Im)Politeness Evaluations in Face-To-Face Interaction A Study of Greek Friendship Groups Living Abroad

Vasiliki Saloustrou

Critical Ecolinguistics Within Singapore, 'the Garden City'

Todd LeVasseur, Arran Stibbe, Mariana Roccia

Conversion in Morphology Theory and Typology

Laurie Bauer, Salvador Valera, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics Laurie Bauer

The Interaction Order on Talk Radio Exploring Portuguese Radio Phone-In Programs

Carla Aurélia Rodrigues de Almeida

Speaking in Pictures A Vision of Language

Neil Cohn

Reading and Writing Cambodian (Khmer) A Workbook for Self-Study (Free Online Audio and Printable Flash Cards)

Alberto Periera

Forensic Discourse (Bloomsbury Discourse)

Chris Heffer

Abortion in Ireland The Language of the Campaign for Reproductive Rights

Helen Ringrow, Simon Statham

Language and Memory Methods, Scales and Stakes

Thomas Van de Putte, Tommaso M. Milani, Natalie Braber, Sophie van den Elzen

Vocatives in Lebanese Arabic Forms, Types and Functions

Youssef A. Haddad

Linguistic Citizenship and Vulnerability The Making and Unmaking of Language and Selves

Christopher Stroud, Tommaso M. Milani, Quentin Williams

The Open Handbook of (In)definiteness A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Interpreting Bare Arguments

Veneeta Dayal

Peer Interaction in the Foreign Language Classroom

Elisabet Pladevall-Ballester

Gĩkũyũ Morphosyntax A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis of Head- and Dependent-Marking

Jens Fleischhauer, Claudius Patrick Kihara

Bimodal Bilingual Acquisition of a HKSL-Cantonese Deaf Child

The Acquisition of Russian As a Second Language A Research Overview

Tania Ionin, Tatiana Luchkina

Adult Migrants Learning Literacy in a New Language (Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL], 41)

Collaboarative AI

Joshua M. Paiz

Academic Literacy in English for Academic Purposes Principles and Practices

Ursula Wingate

The Balkan Linguistic Area An Atlas of Variation and Contact

Evangelia Adamou, Andrey N. Sobolev

Acting

John Matthews