Summer Reading Lists
Das Linguistikinstitut hat eine Liste mit interessanten Büchern, Filmen, YouTube-Kanälen und anderen Ressourcen zusammengestellt, mit denen ihr eure vorlesungsfreie Zeit mit ein wenig (Freizeit-)Linguistik bereichern könnt!
Die Liste richtet sich an alle, die sich für Linguistik interessieren. Besondere Vorkenntnisse braucht ihr nicht.
Dank der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek (ULB) sind viele der Titel bereits in der Bibliothek vorhanden und verlinkt.
2025
- The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek by Andrea Marcolongo
- Signs of Civilisation: How punctuation changed history by Bård Borch Michalsen
- Atlas der vom Aussterben bedrohten Sprachen, von Arnfrid Schenk, Stefan Schnell
- The AI Con, by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna
- Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape by Manchan Magan
- Babel by R. F. Kuang
- Exercises in Style (Stilübungen) by Raymond Queneau
- The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe
- Research Mates in African Linguistics edited by Ngessimo M. Mutaka and Sammy B. Chumbow
- Arrival (2016)
- Am Anfang war das Wort (Fry's Planet Word) (2011)
- Die Glücklichen des Amazonas (The Language of Happiness) (2012)
- The Linguists (2008)
- Is the man who is tall happy? (2013)
- My beautiful broken brain (2014)
- The King’s Speech (2010)
- Heinrich Heine in your mother tongue
- Levy, Kim, and Fox. 2025. The Science of Language in the Era of Generative AI
- The love of books (How a complete library was saved during the war in Sarajevo)
2024
- Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World (Irene Vallejo)
- The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams)
- Is that a Fish in your ear? Translation the Meaning of Everything (David Bellos)
- The Penguin Book of Oulipo (Edited by Philip Terry)
- Endangered Alphabets, an Essay on writing (Tim Brookes)
- Poems from the Edge of Extinction: The Beautiful New Treasury of Poetry in Endangered Languages, in Association with the National Poetry Library
- Just a Phrase I’m going Through, My life in language (David Crystal)
- The language instinct (Steven Pinker)
- Musicophilia (Oliver Sacks)
- Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
- Through the Language Glass (Guy Deutscher)
available at ULB: https://katalog.ulb.hhu.de/Record/990023722890206443 and https://katalog.ulb.hhu.de/Record/990023885400206443 - The Unfolding of Language (Guy Deutscher)
- Language Myths (Laurie Bauer & Trudgill)
- Heterogenia Linguistico: An Introduction to Interspecies Linguistics (Seno Salt)
- The Linguistics Wars (Randy Allen Harris)
- The Semantics of Murder (Aifric Campbell)
- The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy (John DeFrancis)
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: An edition printed in the International Phonetic Alphabet (Lewis Carroll, transcribed by Michael Everson)
- The Awful German Language (Mark Twain)
- Babel (Gaston Durren)
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