Books like After Babel

12 books to read next

• Language, Culture, and Translating Eugene Albert Nida, Eugene A. Nida 3.8 h
• Lost in Translation Ella Frances Sanders 2.1 h
• Tractatus Logico-philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein, Isidoro Reguera Pérez, Ivo Hernández, Spanish, Charles Ogden, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness, Luis Manuel Valdés Villanueva, Bertrand Russell 3.1 h
• Philosophical Investigations Ludwig Wittgenstein 4.6 h
• The Language Instinct Steven Pinker 9.4 h
• The Stuff of Thought Steven Pinker 9.2 h
• How to Do Things with Words J. L. Austin 3.1 h
• The Unfolding of Language Guy Deutscher 6.6 h
• Of Grammatology Jacques Derrida 8.2 h
• The Essential Chomsky Noam Chomsky 9.1 h
• Philosophy of Language William P. Alston 2.1 h
• Semiotica y Filosofia del Lenguaje Umberto Eco 4.4 h

How long each takes

Language, Culture, and Translating Eugene Albert Nida, Eugene A. Nida 3.8 h Lost in Translation Ella Frances Sanders 2.1 h Tractatus Logico-philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein, Isidoro Reguera Pérez, Ivo Hernández, Spanish, Charles Ogden, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness, Luis Manuel Valdés Villanueva, Bertrand Russell 3.1 h Philosophical Investigations Ludwig Wittgenstein 4.6 h The Language Instinct Steven Pinker 9.4 h The Stuff of Thought Steven Pinker 9.2 h How to Do Things with Words J. L. Austin 3.1 h The Unfolding of Language Guy Deutscher 6.6 h Of Grammatology Jacques Derrida 8.2 h The Essential Chomsky Noam Chomsky 9.1 h Philosophy of Language William P. Alston 2.1 h Semiotica y Filosofia del Lenguaje Umberto Eco 4.4 h

Bar height shows length. Estimated at 250 words a minute.