The Language & Communication Collection 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.
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- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar TongueFrancis Grose
- A Book About WordsG. F. Graham
- A Concise Anglo-Saxon DictionaryJ. R. Clark Hall
- A Dictionary of Cebuano VisayanJohn U. Wolff
- A dictionary of English proverbs
- A Dictionary of English SynonymesRichard Soule
- A Dictionary of Slang, CantJohn Camden Hotten
- A Finnish GrammarCharles Eliot
- A First Spanish ReaderErwin W. Roessler
- A Grammar of the English TongueSamuel Johnson
- A Greek-English Lexicon to the New TestamentWilliam Greenfield
- A Handbook of the Cornish LanguageHenry Jenner
- A Hausa botanical vocabularyJ. M. Dalziel
- A Key Into the Language of AmericaRoger Williams
- A Latin Grammar for Schools and CollegesGeorge Martin Lane
- A Literary History of IrelandDouglas Hyde
- A Manual of the Malay languageSir William Edward Maxwell
- A Middle English VocabularyJ. R. R. Tolkien
- A Middle High German PrimerJoseph Wright
- A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs
- A Short Introduction to English GrammarRobert Lowth
- A Spelling-Book for Advanced ClassesOliver Optic
- An Advanced English Grammar with ExercisesGeorge Lyman Kittredge
- An Elementary Spanish ReaderEarl Stanley Harrison
- An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2John Locke
- An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish LanguageJohn Jamieson
- Argot and slangAlbert Barrère
- Business English: A Practice BookRose Buhlig
- Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary, Part 1 (A–D)Unknown
- Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez CodexWilliam Gates
- Concise Dictionary of Middle EnglishA. L. Mayhew
- ConversationMary Greer Conklin
- De grondbeginselen der Nederlandsche spellingL. A. te Winkel
- De Nederlandsche Geslachtsnamen in OorsprongJohan Winkler
- Delsarte System of OratoryDelaumosne
- Dialogues in French and EnglishWilliam Caxton
- Diccionario Ingles-Español-TagalogSofronio G. Calderón
- Dictionary of Oldest WordsHerbert Coleridge
- Dictionnaire complet de l’argot employéAnonymous
- Dictionnaire d'argot fin-de-siècleCharles Virmaître
- Dictionnaire de la langue verteAlfred Delvau
- Die Deutschen Familiennamen, geschichtlich, geographisch, sprachlichAlbert Heintze
- Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese LanguageDiego Collado
- Dissertations on the English LanguageNoah Webster
- Early Theories of TranslationFlora Ross Amos
- Elements of Gaelic GrammarAlexander Stewart
- Engelsk-Svensk och Svensk-Engelsk Ordbok Med Fullständig UttalsbeteckningFrederick Lönnkvist
- English as She is WroteAnonymous
- English As We Speak It in IrelandP. W. Joyce
- English Past and PresentRichard Chenevix Trench
- English Surnames: Their Sources and SignificationsCharles Wareing Endell Bardsley
- English Synonyms and AntonymsJames Champlin Fernald
- English-Esperanto DictionaryJ. C. O'Connor
- English: Composition and LiteratureW. F. Webster
- Essay on the Principles of TranslationAlexander Fraser Tytler
- Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen SeemannsspracheGustav Goedel
- French Idioms and Proverbsde V. Payen-Payne
- Geographical etymologyChristina Blackie
- German compositionHermann Lange
- German Science ReaderCharles Frederick Kroeh
- Grammar-landM. L. Nesbitt
- Helps to Latin Translation at SightEdmund Luce
- Het Esperanto in Twintig LessenA. Blok
- History in English WordsOwen Barfield
- History of Christian namesCharlotte M. Yonge
- Hobson-JobsonSir Henry Yule
- How to Master the Spoken WordEdwin Gordon Lawrence
- How to Speak and Write CorrectlyJoseph Devlin
- How to Write LettersMary Owens Crowther
- Indian Linguistic Families of AmericaJohn Wesley Powell
- Korean—English DictionaryLeon Kuperman
- Lakeland WordsBryham Kirkby
- Language: An Introduction to the Study of SpeechEdward Sapir
- Language: Its Nature, Development and OriginOtto Jespersen
- Latin for BeginnersBenjamin L. D'Ooge
- Latin Phrase-BookCarl Meissner
- Lectures on the Science of LanguageF. Max Müller
- Letters of George Borrow to the Bible SocietyGeorge Borrow
- McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling BookAlexander H. McGuffey
- McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic ReaderWilliam Holmes McGuffey
- Mga Paquigpulong sa Iningles ug BinisayaGregorio de Santiago Vela
- Mittelniederdeutsches HandwörterbuchAugust Lübben
- Mr. Honey's Large Business Dictionary (English-German)Winfried Honig
- My Autobiography: A FragmentF. Max Müller
- NamesLeopold Wagner
- New Latin GrammarCharles E. Bennett
- Noah WebsterHorace E. Scudder
- On Literary CompositionDionysius of Halicarnassus
- On the Study of WordsRichard Chenevix Trench
- OpusculaR. G. Latham
- OrthographyElmer W. Cavins
- Pennsylvania DutchS. S. Haldeman
- Phrases and Names, Their Origins and MeaningsTrench H. Johnson
- Picture-Writing of the American IndiansGarrick Mallery
- Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)C. A. Toledano
- Place Names in KentJ. W. Horsley
- Preface to a Dictionary of the English LanguageSamuel Johnson
- Principles of literary criticismI. A. Richards
- Proverbs and Their LessonsRichard Chenevix Trench
- Putnam’s Word BookLouis A. Flemming
- Reise in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden des neuen Continents, Band 2Alexander von Humboldt
- Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and PhrasesPeter Mark Roget
- Romano Lavo-LilGeorge Borrow
- Rustic Speech and Folk-LoreElizabeth Mary Wright
- Sign Language Among North AmericanGarrick Mallery
- Studien und Plaudereien. First SeriesSigmon M. Stern
- StyleWalter Raleigh
- Surnames as a ScienceRobert Ferguson
- Synonyms and antonymsEdith B. Ordway
- The American LanguageH. L. Mencken
- The Art of Public SpeakingJ. Berg Esenwein
- The Art of Writing and Speaking the English LanguageSherwin Cody
- The book of wonders
- The CategoriesAristotle
- The Civilization of IlliteracyMihai Nadin
- The Comic English GrammarPercival Leigh
- The Comic Latin GrammarPercival Leigh
- The Elements of StyleWilliam Strunk
- The English LanguageR. G. Latham
- The Ethics of RhetoricRichard M. Weaver
- The Evolution of English LexicographyJames A. H. Murray
- The Grammar of English GrammarsGoold Brown
- The History of LanguageHerbert A. Strong and others
- The International Auxiliary Language EsperantoGeorge Cox
- The King’s EnglishH. W. & F. G. Fowler
- The life of Cardinal MezzofantiCharles William Russell
- The Ontario High School ReaderAletta E. Marty
- The Origin of Thought and SpeechM. Moncalm
- The Philosophy of Life and of LanguageFriedrich von Schlegel
- The Philosophy of StyleHerbert Spencer
- The River-Names of EuropeRobert Ferguson
- The Romance of WordsErnest Weekley
- The slang dictionaryJohn Camden Hotten
- The Spanish American ReaderErnesto Nelson
- The VerbalistAlfred Ayres
- Woordenlijst voor de spelling der Nederlandsche TaalM. de Vries
- Words; Their Use and AbuseWilliam Mathews
- Write It RightAmbrose Bierce