Linguistique
Les mots façonnent notre façon de penser, de communiquer et de comprendre le monde — des métaphores qui structurent nos pensées aux différences subtiles entre les langues et les dialectes. Notre collection de linguistique explore la science et l'art de la parole humaine, offrant des perspectives sur la grammaire, l'apprentissage des langues, l'expression culturelle et les façons fascinantes dont notre cerveau traite le sens.
Linguistique Résumés de livres
Fluent Forever
The sounds come first: train your ears. Then timed review cards lock words into permanent memory.
Langue
Développement personnel
Éducation
Développement personnel
Psychologie
Fluent Forever
The sounds come first: train your ears. Then timed review cards lock words into permanent memory.
Langue
Développement personnel
Éducation
Développement personnel
Psychologie
Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition
Grammar study is an editor, not the engine. One real conversation beats a hundred drills.
Éducation
Enseignement
Learning
Grammar
Science
Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition
Grammar study is an editor, not the engine. One real conversation beats a hundred drills.
Éducation
Enseignement
Learning
Grammar
Science
Une logique de la communication
Your silence speaks. Your questions command. Your fights turn on where you punctuate the story.
Psychologie
Langue
Sociologie
Philosophie
Anthropologie
Une logique de la communication
Your silence speaks. Your questions command. Your fights turn on where you punctuate the story.
Psychologie
Langue
Sociologie
Philosophie
Anthropologie
Les métaphores dans la vie quotidienne
Metaphor isn't decoration. It's the operating system of the mind, and you never chose yours.
Langue
Philosophie
Psychologie
Science
Culture
Les métaphores dans la vie quotidienne
Metaphor isn't decoration. It's the operating system of the mind, and you never chose yours.
Langue
Philosophie
Psychologie
Science
Culture
Décidément, tu ne me comprends pas !
Men talk to rank; women talk to bond. A collision course learned on the playground.
Psychologie
Développement personnel
Relations
Féminisme
Sociologie
Décidément, tu ne me comprends pas !
Men talk to rank; women talk to bond. A collision course learned on the playground.
Psychologie
Développement personnel
Relations
Féminisme
Sociologie
English Grammar in Use With Answers
English grammar that works like a reference, not a textbook: look up the rule, practice, check.
Langue
Référence
Grammar
Éducation
Écriture
English Grammar in Use With Answers
English grammar that works like a reference, not a textbook: look up the rule, practice, check.
Langue
Référence
Grammar
Éducation
Écriture
Practical English Usage
600 A-Z entries that solve the English usage problems your textbook leaves unexplained.
Référence
Langue
Écriture
Enseignement
Éducation
Practical English Usage
600 A-Z entries that solve the English usage problems your textbook leaves unexplained.
Référence
Langue
Écriture
Enseignement
Éducation
The All New Don't Think of an Elephant!
Argue in your opponent's words and you've already lost. How frames, not facts, control politics.
Politique
Langue
Psychologie
Philosophie
Sociologie
The All New Don't Think of an Elephant!
Argue in your opponent's words and you've already lost. How frames, not facts, control politics.
Politique
Langue
Psychologie
Philosophie
Sociologie
Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language
Gossip isn't petty. It's the reason language exists: a louder, faster replacement for grooming.
Science
Anthropologie
Évolution
Psychologie
Langue
Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language
Gossip isn't petty. It's the reason language exists: a louder, faster replacement for grooming.
Science
Anthropologie
Évolution
Psychologie
Langue
Understanding and Using English Grammar
A workbook that builds English sentences from tense through clause to clear, connected ideas.
Langue
Éducation
Référence
Écriture
Enseignement
Understanding and Using English Grammar
A workbook that builds English sentences from tense through clause to clear, connected ideas.
Langue
Éducation
Référence
Écriture
Enseignement
Les limites de l'interprétation
When deconstruction declared all readings equal, Eco showed why the text itself disagrees.
Philosophie
Langue
Littérature
Écriture
Intellectual
Les limites de l'interprétation
When deconstruction declared all readings equal, Eco showed why the text itself disagrees.
Philosophie
Langue
Littérature
Écriture
Intellectual
The Elements of Eloquence
Shakespeare didn't wait for inspiration. He studied the tricks that make phrases stick.
Écriture
Langue
Référence
Humour
Éducation
The Elements of Eloquence
Shakespeare didn't wait for inspiration. He studied the tricks that make phrases stick.
Écriture
Langue
Référence
Humour
Éducation
Reframing
Change anyone's mind, including your own, by shifting the frame around their experience.
Psychologie
Développement personnel
Langue
Croissance personnelle
Santé mentale
Reframing
Change anyone's mind, including your own, by shifting the frame around their experience.
Psychologie
Développement personnel
Langue
Croissance personnelle
Santé mentale
Moral Politics
Liberals and conservatives don't just disagree; they're running different family simulations.
Politique
Psychologie
Philosophie
Langue
Sociologie
Moral Politics
Liberals and conservatives don't just disagree; they're running different family simulations.
Politique
Psychologie
Philosophie
Langue
Sociologie
Effortless English
Grammar made you slow. The fix: massive listening, whole phrases, and a playful mindset.
Développement personnel
Langue
Éducation
Psychologie
Développement personnel
Effortless English
Grammar made you slow. The fix: massive listening, whole phrases, and a playful mindset.
Développement personnel
Langue
Éducation
Psychologie
Développement personnel
Language, Truth and Logic
A single test separates meaningful statements from nonsense, and most of philosophy fails it.
Philosophie
Langue
Science
Classiques
XXe siècle
Language, Truth and Logic
A single test separates meaningful statements from nonsense, and most of philosophy fails it.
Philosophie
Langue
Science
Classiques
XXe siècle
Mind
Logic, concepts, images, analogies, neural nets: the mind's many tools, mapped in one framework.
Science
Psychologie
Philosophie
Informatique
Anthropologie
Mind
Logic, concepts, images, analogies, neural nets: the mind's many tools, mapped in one framework.
Science
Psychologie
Philosophie
Informatique
Anthropologie
The Myth of Mars and Venus
Verbal ability overlaps 99.75% between sexes. The gender-communication industry is built on noise.
Langue
Genre
Féminisme
Psychologie
Sociologie
The Myth of Mars and Venus
Verbal ability overlaps 99.75% between sexes. The gender-communication industry is built on noise.
Langue
Genre
Féminisme
Psychologie
Sociologie
The Sense of Style
Why can't smart people write clearly? A cognitive scientist blames one mental blind spot.
Écriture
Langue
Psychologie
Référence
Science
The Sense of Style
Why can't smart people write clearly? A cognitive scientist blames one mental blind spot.
Écriture
Langue
Psychologie
Référence
Science
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
The feelings you've always had finally have names: an invented dictionary for the human condition.
Langue
Philosophie
Référence
Psychologie
Poésie
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
The feelings you've always had finally have names: an invented dictionary for the human condition.
Langue
Philosophie
Référence
Psychologie
Poésie
The Bestseller Code
An algorithm spots bestsellers with 80 percent accuracy, reading signals no writing class teaches.
Écriture
Livres sur les livres
Technologie
Business
Informatique
The Bestseller Code
An algorithm spots bestsellers with 80 percent accuracy, reading signals no writing class teaches.
Écriture
Livres sur les livres
Technologie
Business
Informatique
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition
Reading each other's goals let knowledge stockpile across generations, changing the mind forever.
Psychologie
Anthropologie
Évolution
Science
Philosophie
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition
Reading each other's goals let knowledge stockpile across generations, changing the mind forever.
Psychologie
Anthropologie
Évolution
Science
Philosophie
The Linguist
The method that builds fluency through audio, reading, and self-guided practice, not grammar drills.
Langue
Développement personnel
Éducation
Croissance personnelle
Voyage
The Linguist
The method that builds fluency through audio, reading, and self-guided practice, not grammar drills.
Langue
Développement personnel
Éducation
Croissance personnelle
Voyage
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
English and Sanskrit share an ancestor spoken by Bronze Age herders. Horse and wheel spread it.
Histoire
Archéologie
Anthropologie
Langue
Science
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
English and Sanskrit share an ancestor spoken by Bronze Age herders. Horse and wheel spread it.
Histoire
Archéologie
Anthropologie
Langue
Science
L'Instinct du sens
Every sentence you speak betrays the mind's hidden assumptions about space, time, and cause.
Psychologie
Langue
Science
Philosophie
Anthropologie
L'Instinct du sens
Every sentence you speak betrays the mind's hidden assumptions about space, time, and cause.
Psychologie
Langue
Science
Philosophie
Anthropologie
English Vocabulary in Use Elementary
Core English vocabulary, taught through the topics of daily life: home, work, food, and more.
Langue
Référence
Éducation
Text
Enseignement
English Vocabulary in Use Elementary
Core English vocabulary, taught through the topics of daily life: home, work, food, and more.
Langue
Référence
Éducation
Text
Enseignement
Becoming Fluent
You learn languages better as an adult. The cognitive science behind your hidden advantages.
Langue
Psychologie
Développement personnel
Science
Éducation
Becoming Fluent
You learn languages better as an adult. The cognitive science behind your hidden advantages.
Langue
Psychologie
Développement personnel
Science
Éducation
Fluent in 3 Months
Skip the classroom: why broken sentences now beat years of silent preparation.
Langue
Développement personnel
Éducation
Voyage
Psychologie
Fluent in 3 Months
Skip the classroom: why broken sentences now beat years of silent preparation.
Langue
Développement personnel
Éducation
Voyage
Psychologie
Origins of Human Communication
Language didn't start with a code. It started with pointing, pantomime, and the urge to help.
Psychologie
Langue
Science
Anthropologie
Évolution
Origins of Human Communication
Language didn't start with a code. It started with pointing, pantomime, and the urge to help.
Psychologie
Langue
Science
Anthropologie
Évolution
Uncovering the Logic of English
Thirty rules explain 98% of English spellings. Schools quit teaching them; here they are.
Éducation
Enseignement
Langue
Référence
Écriture
Uncovering the Logic of English
Thirty rules explain 98% of English spellings. Schools quit teaching them; here they are.
Éducation
Enseignement
Langue
Référence
Écriture
Polyglotte
How an interpreter learned 16 languages after age 30, using books instead of classrooms.
Langue
Éducation
Mémoires
Développement personnel
Développement personnel
Polyglotte
How an interpreter learned 16 languages after age 30, using books instead of classrooms.
Langue
Éducation
Mémoires
Développement personnel
Développement personnel
How to Speak Any Language Fluently
The routines, memory tricks, and confidence builders that turn a silent learner fluent.
Développement personnel
Langue
Éducation
Référence
Développement personnel
How to Speak Any Language Fluently
The routines, memory tricks, and confidence builders that turn a silent learner fluent.
Développement personnel
Langue
Éducation
Référence
Développement personnel
The Glamour of Grammar
How the comma, the semicolon, and the well-chosen verb become instruments of style.
Écriture
Langue
Référence
Éducation
Développement personnel
The Glamour of Grammar
How the comma, the semicolon, and the well-chosen verb become instruments of style.
Écriture
Langue
Référence
Éducation
Développement personnel
Recherches philosophiques
Philosophy's deepest problems dissolve when you stop asking what words mean and watch how they work.
Philosophie
Classiques
Psychologie
Écriture
Référence
Recherches philosophiques
Philosophy's deepest problems dissolve when you stop asking what words mean and watch how they work.
Philosophie
Classiques
Psychologie
Écriture
Référence
Verbal Advantage
Ten levels that take your vocabulary from competent to commanding, one word at a time.
Développement personnel
Langue
Écriture
Référence
Business
Verbal Advantage
Ten levels that take your vocabulary from competent to commanding, one word at a time.
Développement personnel
Langue
Écriture
Référence
Business
The Power of Language
Language doesn't just describe your world. It builds it. A second language builds a second you.
Langue
Psychologie
Science
Éducation
Culture
The Power of Language
Language doesn't just describe your world. It builds it. A second language builds a second you.
Langue
Psychologie
Science
Éducation
Culture
You Are What You Speak
Grammar rules are recent inventions, language decline is a myth, and purism is identity politics.
Langue
Politique
Histoire
Sociologie
Écriture
You Are What You Speak
Grammar rules are recent inventions, language decline is a myth, and purism is identity politics.
Langue
Politique
Histoire
Sociologie
Écriture
Mother Tongue
A family's two-year quest to learn Mandarin, Arabic, and Spanish abroad. But her toddler objected.
Mémoires
Voyage
Langue
Parentalité
Famille
Mother Tongue
A family's two-year quest to learn Mandarin, Arabic, and Spanish abroad. But her toddler objected.
Mémoires
Voyage
Langue
Parentalité
Famille
Fundamentals of English Grammar
Make grammar stick: know when to pair up, when to correct, and when to step aside.
Langue
Éducation
Enseignement
Grammar
Écriture
Fundamentals of English Grammar
Make grammar stick: know when to pair up, when to correct, and when to step aside.
Langue
Éducation
Enseignement
Grammar
Écriture
Because Internet
Why a period feels angry and emoji work like gestures: the hidden grammar of internet English.
Langue
Science
Sociologie
Technologie
Écriture
Because Internet
Why a period feels angry and emoji work like gestures: the hidden grammar of internet English.
Langue
Science
Sociologie
Technologie
Écriture
Dreyer's English
A copy chief teaches the cuts, the commas, and the confidence to write clear, unstoppable prose.
Écriture
Référence
Langue
Livres sur les livres
Humour
Dreyer's English
A copy chief teaches the cuts, the commas, and the confidence to write clear, unstoppable prose.
Écriture
Référence
Langue
Livres sur les livres
Humour
Swearing Is Good for You
Swearing isn't a character flaw. It is a biological tool that dulls pain and forges trust.
Science
Psychologie
Langue
Sociologie
Anthropologie
Swearing Is Good for You
Swearing isn't a character flaw. It is a biological tool that dulls pain and forges trust.
Science
Psychologie
Langue
Sociologie
Anthropologie
Language in Thought and Action
Most arguments and prejudices come from one error: treating words as if they were facts.
Langue
Psychologie
Philosophie
Science
Sociologie
Language in Thought and Action
Most arguments and prejudices come from one error: treating words as if they were facts.
Langue
Psychologie
Philosophie
Science
Sociologie
The Written World
Significance has a blueprint most people overlook, and it has nothing to do with your resume.
Christianisme
Développement personnel
Christian Faith
Religion
Spiritualité
The Written World
Significance has a blueprint most people overlook, and it has nothing to do with your resume.
Christianisme
Développement personnel
Christian Faith
Religion
Spiritualité
The Language Game
Language isn't a fixed code; it's a second-by-second improvisation that built human culture.
Langue
Science
Psychologie
Évolution
Anthropologie
The Language Game
Language isn't a fixed code; it's a second-by-second improvisation that built human culture.
Langue
Science
Psychologie
Évolution
Anthropologie
