linguistics

Book Reviews

• J. Keith Atkinson: A Primer of Romance Philology
  A beginner's guide to the Romance languages of medieval France and Spain
• Robert F. Barsky: Noam Chomsky
  A Life of Dissent
• Laurie Bauer, Peter Trudgill: Language Myths
  - 21 common misconceptions about language corrected
• Florian Coulmas: Writing Systems*
  An introduction to their linguistic analysis
• Terry Crowley: An Introduction to Historical Linguistics
  - a straightforward text
• David Crystal: English as a Global Language
• David Crystal: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
  - a broad survey aimed at a popular audience
• David Crystal: Language Death
  - threats to languages and approaches to revitalization
• David Crystal: Language and the Internet
  - a linguist on Netspeak: email, chat, virtual worlds, and the Web
• David Crystal: Language Play
  - by adults and children
• R.M.W. Dixon: The Rise and Fall of Languages
  - an overview of linguistics by a prominent but idiosyncratic linguist
• Marc D. Hauser: The Evolution of Communication*
  - neurobiological, ontogenetic, adaptive, and psychological approaches
• Richard Hogg: An Introduction to Old English
  - a historical account, setting the language in context
• John Holm: An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles*
  - a text for linguistics students, but reasonably accessible
• Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum: A Student's Introduction to English Grammar*
  - using the latest linguistic research
• Kenneth Katzner: The Languages of the World
  - sample texts, translations and background for 200 languages
• Cecilia Lindqvist: China, Empire of the Written Symbol**
  - Chinese history and culture through written characters
• Tom McArthur: The English Languages
• Maryon McDonald: We are not French!
  Language, Culture and Identity in Brittany
• Salikoko S. Mufwene: The Ecology of Language Evolution*
  - creoles, biological parallels, and socioeconomic history
• Steven Pinker: The Language Instinct
  The New Science of Language and Mind
• Geoffrey K. Pullum: The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax
  And Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language
• W.V. Quine: Quiddities
  An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary
• S. Robert Ramsey: The Languages of China**
  - social, cultural, and historical background as well as linguistics
• Orrin W. Robinson: Old English and its Closest Relatives**
  A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages
• John Edward Terrell: Archaeology, Language, and History
  Essays on Culture and Ethnicity
• J. Marshall Unger: Ideogram
  Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning
• Nils L. Wallin, et al.: The Origins of Music
  - towards an evolutionary musicology
• A. Zee: Swallowing Clouds*
  A Playful Journey through Chinese Culture, Language, and Cuisine

See also: writing