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Book recommendation on Linguistics (programming.dev)
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Can be on anything really

some ideas for book topics:

  • Metaphors and how they effect us in the modern day
  • The limits and problems with translation and beauty from fault
  • How capitalism effects our language and relations
  • The tyranny of the Dictionary
  • Philosophy's relationship with language
  • How language effect love
  • How therapy talk can be suffocating
  • Language and colonialism
  • The Language of religion

I have been thinking about language more and more recently and how we use it and want to read some theory on it

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[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I saved this to read the replies and am sad there aren't any.

On the other hand, it reminded me that I bought but never read Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch, so that's nice.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Right? I just saw this thread and was curious to see what might come up.

I heard about that one on her podcast. Listening to more episodes or just reading the show notes would probably be a good way to find books. I know I heard them mention a book about conlangs in an early episode. And just recently she interviewed another guy with a book similar to Because Internet, called Algospeak.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

One that I've heard good things about is The Language Instinct.

There's a Very Short Introductions: Linguistics book. The VSIs are usually a good start, and typically have a 'further reading' section to get more book ideas.