Language & Communication gathers the foundational texts of linguistics, rhetoric, and the study of how human beings make meaning through words. The Brothers Grimm’s pioneering work on Germanic languages, Max Müller’s comparative mythology, and the great Victorian grammarians and etymologists all appear here as free EPUB downloads, representing the era when language study became a rigorous scientific discipline.
The shelf also includes classical rhetoric from Aristotle and Cicero, handbooks on oratory and composition, and the philosophical investigations into meaning and reference that bridged linguistics and logic. Whether you approach language as a historian, a philosopher, or a writer, this collection provides the scholarly infrastructure on which modern linguistics built its foundations.
- Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)Unknown
- Reise in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden des neuen Continents. Band 2.Alexander von Humboldt
- The Comic English Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The English TonguePercival Leigh
- Woordenlijst voor de spelling der Nederlandsche Taal / Met aanwijzing van de geslachten der naamwoorden en de vervoeging der werkwoordenM. de Vries
- The Elements of StyleWilliam Strunk
- Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and PhrasesPeter Mark Roget
- The Ontario High School ReaderAletta E. Marty
- De grondbeginselen der Nederlandsche spelling / Regeling der spelling voor het woordenboek der Nederlandsche taalL. A. te Winkel
- English Past and PresentRichard Chenevix Trench
- A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2J. M. D. Meiklejohn
- Phrases and Names, Their Origins and MeaningsTrench H. Johnson
- A Dictionary of Cebuano VisayanJohn U. Wolff
- English: Composition and LiteratureW. F. Webster
- A Manual of the Malay language / With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in MalaySir William Edward Maxwell
- The Verbalist / A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety.Alfred Ayres
- Studien und Plaudereien. First SeriesSigmon M. Stern
- Helps to Latin Translation at SightEdmund Luce
- A Middle High German Primer / Third EditionJoseph Wright
- A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580A. L. Mayhew
- German Science Reader / An Introduction to Scientific German, for Students of Physics, Chemistry and EngineeringCharles Frederick Kroeh
- ConversationMary Greer Conklin
- A Spelling-Book for Advanced ClassesOliver Optic
- An Advanced English Grammar with ExercisesGeorge Lyman Kittredge
- The slang dictionaryJohn Camden Hotten
- A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary / For the Use of StudentsJ. R. Clark Hall
- Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog / Con partes de la oracion y pronunciacion figuradaSofronio G. Calderón
- A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language / From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300Herbert Coleridge
- A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words / Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James.John Camden Hotten
- Die Deutschen Familiennamen, geschichtlich, geographisch, sprachlichAlbert Heintze
- The Art of Public SpeakingJ. Berg Esenwein
- How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) / A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal CorrespondenceMary Owens Crowther
- Dictionnaire complet de l'argot employé dans les Mystères de ParisAnonymous
- Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese LanguageDiego Collado
- Latin for BeginnersBenjamin L. D'Ooge
- Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex / with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya GlyphsWilliam Gates
- Early Theories of TranslationFlora Ross Amos
- OrthographyElmer W. Cavins
- Putnam's Word Book / A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of an Exact and Varied VocabularyLouis A. Flemming
- Latin Phrase-BookCarl Meissner
- The life of Cardinal Mezzofanti / With an introductory memoir of eminent linguists, ancient and modernCharles William Russell
- Geographical etymology: a dictionary of place-names giving their derivationsChristina Blackie
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar TongueFrancis Grose
- Lectures on the Science of LanguageF. Max Müller
- The Spanish American ReaderErnesto Nelson
- Mr. Honey's Large Business Dictionary (English-German)Winfried Honig
- The American Language / A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United StatesH. L. Mencken
- An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 / MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4John Locke
- A First Spanish ReaderErwin W. Roessler
- A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs / Comprising French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and Danish, with English Translations and a General Index
- De Nederlandsche Geslachtsnamen in Oorsprong, Geschiedenis en BeteekenisJohan Winkler
- The Civilization of IlliteracyMihai Nadin
- Argot and slangAlbert Barrère
- English-Esperanto DictionaryJ. C. O'Connor
- The book of wonders
- An Elementary Spanish ReaderEarl Stanley Harrison
- McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling BookAlexander H. McGuffey
- The Grammar of English GrammarsGoold Brown
- English Surnames: Their Sources and SignificationsCharles Wareing Endell Bardsley
- A Latin Grammar for Schools and CollegesGeorge Martin Lane
- Names: and Their Meaning; A Book for the CuriousLeopold Wagner
- Principles of literary criticismI. A. Richards
- Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)
- Dialogues in French and EnglishWilliam Caxton
- French Idioms and Proverbs / A Companion to Deshumbert's "Dictionary of Difficulties"de V. Payen-Payne
- Hobson-Jobson / A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and DiscursiveSir Henry Yule
- A Literary History of Ireland, from Earliest Times to the Present DayDouglas Hyde
- The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section SProject Gutenberg
- A dictionary of English proverbs and proverbial phrases
- McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic ReaderWilliam Holmes McGuffey
- Language: Its Nature, Development and OriginOtto Jespersen
- An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originalsJohn Jamieson
- History of Christian namesCharlotte M. Yonge
- Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 [of 7]John Stephen Farmer
- Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen SeemannsspracheGustav Goedel
- English Synonyms and Antonyms / With Notes on the Correct Use of PrepositionsJames Champlin Fernald
- The CategoriesAristotle
- Business English: A Practice BookRose Buhlig
- A Middle English Vocabulary, Designed for use with Sisam's Fourteenth Century Verse & ProseJ. R. R. Tolkien
- Rustic Speech and Folk-LoreElizabeth Mary Wright
- Het Esperanto in Twintig LessenA. Blok
- Engelsk-Svensk och Svensk-Engelsk Ordbok Med Fullständig UttalsbeteckningFrederick Lönnkvist
- Grammar-land; Or, Grammar in Fun for the Children of Schoolroom-shireM. L. Nesbitt
- New Latin GrammarCharles E. Bennett
- Picture-Writing of the American Indians / Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822Garrick Mallery
- Mga Paquigpulong sa Iningles ug BinisayaGregorio de Santiago Vela
- Dictionnaire d'argot fin-de-siècleCharles Virmaître
- Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes / First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552Garrick Mallery
- Korean—English DictionaryLeon Kuperman
- English as She is Wrote / Showing Curious Ways in which the English Language may be made to Convey Ideas or obscure them.Anonymous
- A Greek-English Lexicon to the New TestamentWilliam Greenfield
- Mittelniederdeutsches HandwörterbuchAugust Lübben
- A Hausa botanical vocabularyJ. M. Dalziel
- Dictionnaire de la langue verteAlfred Delvau
- German compositionHermann Lange
- A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions / Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of PhraseologyRichard Soule
- Delsarte System of OratoryDelaumosne
- Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)C. A. Toledano
- Synonyms and antonymsEdith B. Ordway