Sociolinguistics (Linguistics)

Sociolinguistics further on these related pages:

African American Vernacular English@ Code Switching@ Contact Languages@ Dialects@

Dialects@ Diglossia@ Discourse Analysis@ Pidgins and Creoles@

Sociolinguistics Sites:

My language My language: Mailing list about "unofficial" languages and varieties from Europe. (Sociolinguistics) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/my-language Sociolinguistics Quizzes Sociolinguistics Quizzes: Questions to assess your comprehension of the various principles of sociolinguistics. Includes a reading list. (Sociolinguistics) http://arts-humanities.cant.ac.uk/Language-Studies/distance/SOCIO/MAP.HTM Language and Nationalism in Asia Language and Nationalism in Asia: Research on language and orthographic reform in Han cultural sphere, including Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, and China. (Sociolinguistics) http://www.de-han.org Language Policy Web Site Language Policy Web Site: An exchange of news and views on English Only legislation, bilingual education, endangered languages and related issues of U.S. language policy. (Sociolinguistics) http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/ Attitudes Toward Nonstandard Language in the Classroom Attitudes Toward Nonstandard Language in the Classroom: Compares attitudes of German-speaking and English-speaking students and teacher toward dialects of their language. Includes slide show and bibliography. Undergraduate honors thesis of Kendra Banks Perry. (Sociolinguistics) http://homepage.mac.com/bibliophiles/attitude.htm American Dialect Society American Dialect Society: Scholarly association dedicated to the study of the English language in North America. (Sociolinguistics) http://www.americandialect.org/ Atlas of North American English Atlas of North American English: A survey of linguistic changes in progress in North American English. (Sociolinguistics) http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/home.html Dialect Survey Maps Dialect Survey Maps: Online pronunciation test and maps of answers. (Sociolinguistics) http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/maps.php Social Factors Social Factors: When two people speak with one another, there is always more going on than just conveying a message. The language used by the participants is always influenced by a number of social factors which define the relationship between the participants. (Sociolinguistics) http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/socioling/social.html The Global Language Monitor The Global Language Monitor: Essays and articles on various linguistic topics, and an algorithmic analysis of political language use in the United States. (Sociolinguistics) http://www.languagemonitor.com/ Language Varieties Language Varieties: Varieties of language that differ from the standard variety normally used in the media and taught in the schools. (Sociolinguistics) http://www.une.edu.au/langnet/ American Russian: An Endangered Language? American Russian: An Endangered Language?: Article by Maria Polinsky discussing a case of language attrition. (Sociolinguistics) http://ling.ucsd.edu/~polinsky/pubs/american-russian.pdf Lingva Prismo Lingva Prismo: Promoting the concept of interlingualism (balancing language equality with effective communication), with language maps, quizzes, and information on world languages and writing systems. In English, Esperanto, and several European languages. (Sociolinguistics) http://lingvo.info/ligiloj/listo.php?lingvo=en International Dialects of English Archive International Dialects of English Archive: A repository of primary source recordings for actors and other artists in the performing arts. (Sociolinguistics) http://www.ukans.edu/~idea/ Sociolinguistics Laboratory - University of Ottawa Sociolinguistics Laboratory - University of Ottawa: Site details people, materials as well as past and ongoing research studies into results of language contact. (Sociolinguistics) http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~sociolx/ Sociolinguistics - Concept of 'Language' Sociolinguistics - Concept of 'Language': Need language be seen as a continuum of different accents, or as a fixed structure of rules? Undergraduate essay. (Sociolinguistics) http://www.chez.com/phiallfish/und_essays/Sociolings.html Language Attitudes Toward Written Taiwanese Language Attitudes Toward Written Taiwanese: A survey on current issues regarding the Taiwanese writing system. (Sociolinguistics) http://ebook.de-han.org/attitude Language Futures Europe Language Futures Europe: Links to sites about multilingualism, language policy and the dominance of English in Europe. (Sociolinguistics) http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/eulang.html North Carolina Language and Life Project North Carolina Language and Life Project: An organization performing research and leading educational programs in representative speech communities. (Sociolinguistics) http://www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/code/Research%20Sites/ncllp2.htm Promoting Community Languages Promoting Community Languages: From the Welsh Language Board. Ideas and suggestions to agencies, groups or individuals who wish to promote the use of minority languages in their communities. (Sociolinguistics) http://www.cymuned.org.uk/