Marisa Brook

Lecturer in Sociolinguistics
Language and Linguistics
University of Essex

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Career resources

Superlinguo: Linguistics Jobs
All Things Linguistic: Linguistics Jobs
Career Linguist
Linguistics Careercast
Exploring Careers with Linguistics Alumni (Northwestern University) [pdf]
Linguist List: Career Listings
Linguistic Society of America: Job Center
Linguistic Society of America: Career and Professional Development Resources
Linguistic Society of America: Linguistics Beyond Academia Special Interest Group
Nuance Communications: Careers
Research at Google: Natural Language Understanding
Jobs.ac.uk: Languages, Literature, and Culture
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Recommended general-audience reading


Like, Literally, Dude by Valerie Fridland (2023)
Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch (2019)
The Prodigal Tongue by Lynne Murphy (2018)
In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent (2009)
Talking Hands by Margalit Fox (2007)
Predicting New Words by Allan Metcalf (2002)
The Man Who Deciphered Linear B by Andrew Robinson (2002)
Language Myths edited by Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill (1998)
Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks (1989)

Organisations

Linguistic Society of America
American Dialect Society
Canadian Linguistic Association
The Linguist List
First Peoples' Cultural Council of British Columbia
North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics
Endangered Language Alliance Toronto
Endangered Language Fund
Endangered Languages Project
Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change Network
Canadian Language Museum
The Language Conservancy
International Society for the Linguistics of English

Some podcasts and YouTube channels

Because Language
NativLang
The History of English Podcast
Lingthusiasm
Otherwords
Mysteries of Vernacular
The Vocal Fries
The Ling Space
Superlinguo's list of more linguistics-related podcasts

Interactive exhibits to play with

Wordcount
Do You Speak American?
The Pop Versus Soda Page
European Word Translator

Databases and resources

Ethnologue
First Voices
Yale Grammaticality Diversity Project
English-Corpora.org
Language Geek
Dialect Atlas of Newfoundland and Labrador
Dictionary of American Regional English
Dictionnaire Québécois
International Dialects of English Archive
World Atlas of Language Structures

Blogs

All Things Linguistic
Superlinguo
Canadian Language Museum Blog
Separated by a Common Language
Lingoblog
Language Hat
Not One-Off Britishisms