Works about language - Topics

Which documentaries actually explain how language works? Which dictionaries are best for tracing word origins? What do philologists actually do all day? Is philology dying out in modern universities? What is the difference between an outline article and a category page for languages? How do critical editions decide between competing readings? Why did nineteenth-century philology shape modern linguistics? What is the difference between a glossary and a termbase? What separates a good technical term from a useless one? Why do dictionaries disagree about which words belong in them? Why is the Homeric question still unresolved? Can a dictionary app replace a paper dictionary for serious study? What makes a good thesaurus different from a dictionary? Which books tell the history of English for general readers? How do you check whether a word origin story is a hoax? Which popular science books explain linguistics to complete beginners? How was the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary assembled? What is the difference between a prescriptive and a descriptive grammar? How do bilingual dictionaries decide which sense to list first? Is Chomsky's Syntactic Structures readable for a non-linguist? How is a style guide different from a grammar book? Which reference works are essential for studying endangered languages? Why is Pinker's The Language Instinct still argued about? Who awards prizes for the best writing about language for general readers? Are there awards given specifically for dictionaries and lexicography? Why is Saussure's Course in General Linguistics still assigned today?