This classic text by Geneva Smitherman, pioneering scholar of Black Talk, is a definitive statement on African American Language (AAL). It is an essential read for students of African American speech, language, culture and sociolinguistics, as well as the general reader interested in the worldwide ‘crossover’ of Black popular culture.

An encompassing study of oralitures - multilayered cultural knowledge shared through the power of orality - and written literatures by authors from Colombia and other regions in the hemisphere who self-identify as Indigenous.

Much more than a word per day, Mental Floss's Word Nerd 2027 Day-to-Day Calendar demonstrates, illuminates, and illustrates how weird, unlikely, and uncanny the history and origins of our language truly are. Whether a reader, writer, teacher, or talker, every word lover will find something new (and old) to say about this.

Miller develops a detailed and cohesive bundle nominalist theory of words. He illustrates how this view can accommodate a variety of linguistic phenomena and be extended to cover other sorts of linguistic entities, such as letters, sentences, morphemes, phonemes, and languages.

365 amazing words or expressions that will make every day of the year better from Britain's best-loved and most brilliant word expert, Susie Dent

Words in Action explores the many ways in which language permeates our social world. Ishani Maitra and Mary Kate McGowan explain how tools from the philosophy of language can help illuminate how language works socially, and how we can challenge the injustices wrought by language use. Their accessible introduction to this growing subfield is suitable for both students and scholars.