The Poetics/Rhetoric (Aristotle). [core text]

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll).

Phaedrus (Plato)

Language (Edward Sapir)

Historical IE [American Heritage Dictionary 1st Edn] (Calvert Watkins)

Words in the Mind (Jean Aitchinson)

Language and the Social Construction of Reality (Marcielena Morgan, ed.)

Language and Mind (Noam Chomsky)

Sociolinguistics (Ronald Wardhaugh)

Course in General Linguistics (Ferdinand de Saussure)

Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language (Robin Dunbar)