Metaphors We Live By

Mark Johnson, Lakoff, George Lakoff

2003 ★ 4.2

Tractatus logico-philosophicus

Bertrand Russell, Ivo Hernández, Isidoro Reguera Pérez et al.

1922 ★ 4.4

The study of language

George Yule

1996

The Language Instinct

Garikoitz Knörr de Santiago, Steven Pinker

1994 ★ 3.9

Philosophische Untersuchungen

Ludwig Wittgenstein

1953 ★ 4.8

An introduction to language

Victoria A. Fromkin, Victoria Fromkin

1983

Principles of language learning and teaching

H. Douglas Brown

1980

Cours de linguistique générale

Ferdinand de Saussure

1959

Primitive culture

Edward Burnett Tylor, Edward B. Tylor

1871

How languages are learned

Patsy M. Lightbown, Nina Spada

1999

How to do things with words

J. L. Austin

1962

Language, thought, and reality

Benjamin Lee Whorf, Stephen C. Levinson, Penny Lee et al.

1956 ★ 5.0

An introduction to bilingualism

Hoffmann, Charlotte

1991

Man made language

Dale Spender

1980

The Cambridge encyclopedia of language

David Crystal

1987

Communicative language teaching

Littlewood, William.

1981

Mind, self, and society

George Herbert Mead

1967

The meaning of meaning

Francis Graham Crookshank, Umberto Eco, C. K. Ogden et al.

1923

De la grammatologie

Jacques Derrida

1985 ★ 3.3

Language and silence

George Steiner

1967 ★ 4.0

The search for the perfect language

Umberto Eco

1995 ★ 3.7

Philosophy of language

William P. Alston

1964

Speech acts

John R. Searle

1989

Words and rules

Arthur Morey, Steven Pinker

1999

That's not what I meant!

Deborah Tannen

1987

Issues and options in language teaching

Stern, H. H.

1993

Talking from 9 to 5

Deborah Tannen

1994

Roles of teachers and learners

Tony Wright

1987

Second language learning theories

Rosamond Mitchell, Florence Myles

2013

Empires of the Word

Nicholas Ostler

2005