- Promoting Community Languages - http://www.cymuned.org.uk/
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.
- Language Policy Web Site - http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/
An exchange of news and views on English Only legislation, bilingual education, endangered languages and related issues of U.S. language policy.
- Social Factors - http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/socioling/social.html
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.
- Language Futures Europe - http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/eulang.html
Links to sites about multilingualism, language policy and the dominance of English in Europe.
- Sociolinguistics - Concept of 'Language' - http://www.chez.com/phiallfish/und_essays/Sociolings.html
Need language be seen as a continuum of different accents, or as a fixed structure of rules? Undergraduate essay.
- Sociolinguistics Quizzes - http://arts-humanities.cant.ac.uk/Language-Studies/distance/SOCIO/MAP.HTM
Questions to assess your comprehension of the various principles of sociolinguistics. Includes a reading list.
- American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org/
Scholarly association dedicated to the study of the English language in North America.
- North Carolina Language and Life Project - http://www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/code/Research%20Sites/ncllp2.htm
An organization performing research and leading educational programs in representative speech communities.
- My language - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/my-language
Mailing list about "unofficial" languages and varieties from Europe.
- Language Varieties - http://www.une.edu.au/langnet/
Varieties of language that differ from the standard variety normally used in the media and taught in the schools.
- Dialect Survey Maps - http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/maps.php
Online pronunciation test and maps of answers.
- Language and Nationalism in Asia - http://www.de-han.org
Research on language and orthographic reform in Han cultural sphere, including Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, and China.
- Attitudes Toward Nonstandard Language in the Classroom - http://homepage.mac.com/bibliophiles/attitude.htm
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.
- The Global Language Monitor - http://www.languagemonitor.com/
Essays and articles on various linguistic topics, and an algorithmic analysis of political language use in the United States.
- PBS - Do You Speak American? - http://www.pbs.org/speak/
Companion material to a TV documentary examining the dynamic state of American (USA) English.
- Lingva Prismo - http://lingvo.info/?lingvo=en
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.
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