Linguistics Book Summaries

That's Not English Summary
That's Not English
Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says About Us
by Erin Moore 2015 223 pages
3.67
844 ratings
Language
Linguistics
Humor
Verbal Advantage Summary
Verbal Advantage
10 Steps to a Powerful Vocabulary
by Charles Harrington Elster 2000 459 pages
4.52
505 ratings
Language
Writing
Self Help
The Language Puzzle Summary
The Language Puzzle
Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
by Steven Mithen 2024 544 pages
3.97
269 ratings
History
Linguistics
Language
Introduction to Psycholinguistics Summary
Introduction to Psycholinguistics
by Danny D. Steinberg 1995 288 pages
3.96
107 ratings
Language
Linguistics
Raising a Bilingual Child Summary
Raising a Bilingual Child
by Barbara Zurer Pearson 2008 346 pages
3.83
331 ratings
Parenting
Education
Language
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language Summary
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
by David W. Anthony 2007 568 pages
3.99
3.7K ratings
History
Linguistics
Anthropology
Dreaming in Hindi Summary
Dreaming in Hindi
Coming Awake in Another Language
by Katherine Russell Rich 2009 384 pages
3.11
1.2K ratings
India
Memoir
Travel
Freedom and Neurobiology Summary
Freedom and Neurobiology
Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power
by John R. Searle 2005 113 pages
3.55
244 ratings
Philosophy
Science
Neuroscience
Dreaming in Chinese Summary
Dreaming in Chinese
Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, And Language
by Deborah Fallows 2010 208 pages
3.63
2.2K ratings
China
Language
Travel
Fundamentals of English Grammar Summary
Fundamentals of English Grammar
by Betty Schrampfer Azar 1985 398 pages
4.18
619 ratings
Language
Education
Reference
Woe Is I Summary
Woe Is I
The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English
by Patricia T. O'Conner 1996 240 pages
3.94
4.5K ratings
Writing
Reference
Language
The Unfolding of Language Summary
The Unfolding of Language
An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
by Guy Deutscher 2005 368 pages
4.22
3.9K ratings
Linguistics
Language
History
The Third Ear Summary
The Third Ear
by Chris Lonsdale 2006 184 pages
3.75
139 ratings
Language
Psychology
Linguistics
Language Hacking Guide Summary
Language Hacking Guide
by Benny Lewis 2010 129 pages
3.64
166 ratings
Language
Reference
Linguistics
Becoming a Translator Summary
Becoming a Translator
An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation
by Douglas Robinson 1997 320 pages
3.68
122 ratings
Linguistics
Language
The Psychology of Language Summary
The Psychology of Language
From Data to Theory
by Trevor A. Harley 1995 624 pages
3.78
131 ratings
Linguistics
Psychology
Language
A Brief History of the Spanish Language Summary
A Brief History of the Spanish Language
by David A. Pharies 2007 248 pages
3.86
146 ratings
Language
Linguistics
History
A World Without "Whom" Summary
A World Without "Whom"
The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age
by Emmy J. Favilla 2017 311 pages
3.72
485 ratings
Language
Writing
Reference
Have You Eaten Grandma? Summary
Have You Eaten Grandma?
by Gyles Brandreth 2018 256 pages
3.93
1.1K ratings
Language
Writing
Humor
Rebel with a Clause Summary
Rebel with a Clause
Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
by Ellen Jovin 2022 400 pages
3.99
1.1K ratings
Language
Writing
Linguistics
How to do Discourse Analysis Summary
How to do Discourse Analysis
A Toolkit
by James Paul Gee 2010 224 pages
3.94
103 ratings
Linguistics
Reference
Language
Like, Literally, Dude Summary
Like, Literally, Dude
Arguing for the Good in Bad English
by Valerie Fridland 2023 336 pages
3.84
832 ratings
Language
Linguistics
Writing
The Secret Life of Words Summary
The Secret Life of Words
English Words and Their Origins
by Anne Curzan 2012 36 pages
4.37
498 ratings
Language
Linguistics
History
Short Stories in French for Beginners Summary
Short Stories in French for Beginners
by Olly Richards 2018 252 pages
4.06
1.1K ratings
France
Short Stories
Language
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