American Dialect Society
Scholarly association dedicated to the study of the English language in North America.
Centre for Language and Ecology
Supporting research into discourse analysis of language/texts which have ecological impact.
Language and Nationalism in Asia
Research on language and orthographic reform in Han cultural sphere, including Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, and China.
Language Attitudes Toward Written Taiwanese
A survey on current issues regarding the Taiwanese writing system.
Lingva Prismo
Promoting the concept of interlingualism (balancing language equality with effective communication), with language maps, quizzes, and information on world languages and writing sys…
North Carolina Language and Life Project
An organization performing research and leading educational programs in representative speech communities.
PBS - Do You Speak American?
Companion material to a TV documentary examining the dynamic state of American (USA) English.
Sociolinguistics - Concept of 'Language'
Need language be seen as a continuum of different accents, or as a fixed structure of rules? Undergraduate essay.
Sociolinguistics Laboratory - University of Ottawa
Site details people, materials as well as past and ongoing research studies into results of language contact.
The Global Language Monitor
Essays and articles on various linguistic topics, and an algorithmic analysis of political language use in the United States.