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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein
4.10 average rating, · 22.9k ratings
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Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein
4.26 average rating, · 16k ratings
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Steven Pinker
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
John Koenig
4.44 average rating, · 6.5k ratings
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Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff
4.09 average rating, · 7.1k ratings
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Naming and Necessity
Saul A. Kripke
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The Blue and Brown Books
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
Walter J. Ong
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The Language of the Third Reich
Victor Klemperer
4.33 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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Word and Object
Willard Van Orman Quine
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Language in Thought and Action
S.I. Hayakawa
4.22 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
George Lakoff
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Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World
Verlyn Flieger
4.03 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition
Saul A. Kripke
4.04 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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Thought and Language
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky
4.23 average rating, · 972 ratings
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Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes
Paul Watzlawick
4.21 average rating, · 951 ratings
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Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language
Douglas R. Hofstadter
4.24 average rating, · 833 ratings
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Mark Achbar
4.41 average rating, · 701 ratings
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After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation
George Steiner
4.15 average rating, · 644 ratings
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How to Read Wittgenstein
Ray Monk
4.04 average rating, · 588 ratings
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The Limits of Interpretation
Umberto Eco
4.13 average rating, · 557 ratings
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