Language Log Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Language Log is a group blog on language and linguistics started in the summer of 2003 by Mark Liberman and Geoffrey Pullum.
Joy of Cooking: Fully Revised and Updated
Irma S. RombauerLanguage LogUpaya: the joy of teaching Classical Chinese: One of my favorite books for everyday living is Irma S. Rombauer's Joy of Cooking. The author's cheerful approach to her craft in the kitchen is similar to my jubilant upāya उपाय ("expedient pedagogical… https://t.co/X2rHoqWGwV
Hardcover, 2019
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The First Blast Of The Trumpet
John KnoxLanguage LogJohn Knox as a Romance author: For reasons not at all connected with this post, I was looking for scans of the 1558 (first) printing of John Knox's infamous screed THE FIRST BLAST OF THE TRUMPET against the monstruous regiment of Women. And one of the… https://t.co/Qp8OVx5EaU https://t.co/OJk47u7z4b
Hardcover, 2010
$33.95$16.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
Ursula K. Le GuinLanguage LogEmbedding depth: In "Trends" (3/27/2022) I compared the distributions of sentence lengths in Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast and Ursula K. Le Guin's The Wave in the Mind. The background, and some of the conclusions, can be found in the slides for my… https://t.co/sayTzQOAUs https://t.co/yd0eaaKUIa
Paperback, 2004
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: Lives
Samuel JohnsonLanguage LogMore "Bad Things"…: [Following up on the previous post…] David Owen wrote the following as empirical support for his claim that sentence-initial appositives ("Bad Things") are a recent innovation: I reread most of Samuel Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets,”… https://t.co/mnDBgbSON8
Paperback, 2010
$32.95$16.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Moveable Feast
Ernest HemingwayLanguage LogEmbedding depth: In "Trends" (3/27/2022) I compared the distributions of sentence lengths in Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast and Ursula K. Le Guin's The Wave in the Mind. The background, and some of the conclusions, can be found in the slides for my… https://t.co/sayTzQOAUs https://t.co/yd0eaaKUIa
Paperback, 1996
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Hanmoji Handbook: Your Guide to the Chinese Language Through Emoji
Jason LiLanguage LogHanmoji: It'sssssssssssss finally out! ✨ The Hanmoji Handbook: Your Guide to the Chinese Language Though Emoji ✨ — by me, An Xiao Mina & @jenny8lee, published by @MITeenPress — appears in bookshops across the US and Canada today!… https://t.co/H5anxgv1rg
Hardcover, 2022
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Discrete Mathematics
Jean GallierLanguage LogKurt Reillag and House of Cats and Dogs: A recent email from my colleague Jean Gallier explains why the new edition of Discrete Mathematics is available on his website: A bit more that three years ago, Springer suggested that I revise my “Discrete… https://t.co/UCcBFueEzS
Paperback, 2011
$79.99$54.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Lies That Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths
Susan D. BlumLanguage LogThe social and political effects of language: Susan Blum, Lies That Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths (Rowman, 2007), p. 130: …Though language was viewed as having pragmatic consequences in the past, during revolutionary China and especially during the… https://t.co/gNkGBhc20w
Hardcover, 2007
$126.00$101.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Lives of The Poets: Addison, Savage, and Swift
Samuel JohnsonLanguage LogMore "Bad Things"…: [Following up on the previous post…] David Owen wrote the following as empirical support for his claim that sentence-initial appositives ("Bad Things") are a recent innovation: I reread most of Samuel Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets,”… https://t.co/mnDBgbSON8
Paperback, 2015
$7.99$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist): The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
Jing TsuLanguage LogLanguage is not script and script is not language, part 2: [This is a guest post by Paul Shore.] The 2022 book Kingdom of Characters by Yale professor Jing Tsu is currently #51,777 in Amazon's sales ranking. (The label "Best Seller" on the Amazon… https://t.co/2ukTV40len
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book