Books about languages and linguistics

[IpseDixit]

I would like this thread to become a list of all the books you know that popularize linguistics (any field thereof) or that - more generally - are about languages and anything related to the subject. You can list books written in any language.

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Books in English (or translated to English)

-Languages of the World: An Introduction - Asya Pereltsvaig (about world languages)
-Don't Think of an Elephant: Know your Values and Frame the Debate - George Lakoff (cognitive linguistics)
-The Art of Language Invention - David Peterson (conlanging)
-La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea (The Search for the Perfect Language in the European Culture) - Umberto Eco

Books in Italian (not sure if they've been translated to English)

-Dire quasi la stessa cosa - Umberto Eco (about translation theory)
-Storia Linguistica dell'Italia Unita - Tullio de Mauro (about the linguistic history of Italy after the Unification)
-La lingua geniale. 9 ragioni per amare il greco - Eva Cantarella (about Ancient Greek)

[md0]

I don't remember other early linguistics books I read, but I remember the first one


The Greek translation. I got it sometime before 2008 because the price label is in Cyprus Pounds.

[Luís]

I don't remember other early linguistics books I read, but I remember the first one

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I have the Portuguese version of that book. I got it as a birthday present more than a decade ago.


A few other books:

English

Teach Yourself Linguistics, Jean Aitchison
An Introduction to Linguistics, Victoria Fromkin
The Last Lingua Franca, Nicholas Ostler
The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker
The Language Construction Kit + Advanced Language Construction, Mark Rosenfelder
The Power of Babel, John McWhorter
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes, Daniel Everett

French

Alice au pays du langage, Marina Yaguello
La plus belle histoire du langage, Cécile Lestienne et al.

Portuguese

Introdução à Linguística Geral e Portuguesa, Inês Duarte et al.
Introdução à Linguística Românica, Maria Luísa Fernandez Miazzi
O Essencial sobre Semântica, Maria Cristina Macário Lopes
O Essencial sobre Pragmática Linguística, José Pinto de Lima
O Essencial sobre Crioulos de Base Portuguesa, Dulce Pereira
Estudos de Dialectologia Portuguesa, Lindley Cintra