Blogs, podcasts and films

Reading widely in a subject area is a great way to become familiar with it. But there are also a range of other media where you can learn about language. Below are links to some the blogs and podcasts that you might find interesting and enhance your understanding of concepts in the textbook. This list is by no means exhaustive.

Blogs

All Things Linguistic, Gretchen McCulloch. http://allthingslinguistic.com/

Deborah Cameron’s Language: A Feminist Guide blog https://debuk.wordpress.com/

Language log. A long standing-multi authored site http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/

Lingua Digitalis...or How To Do Things With*... Keystrokes– online language http://linguadigitalis.blogspot.co.uk/

The Web of Language “Dennis Baron's go-to site for language and technology in the news” https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25

Podcasts

The Allusionist “A Podcast About Language” https://www.theallusionist.org/

Lexicon Valley at Slate http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley.html

Lingthusiasm, Gretchen McCulloch’s podcast http://lingthusiasm.com/

A Way With Words “A public radio program about language examined through history, culture, and family” http://www.waywordradio.org/

The Vocal Fires Pod: A podcast about linguistic discrimination https://vocalfriespod.com/

Spectacular Vernacular: “A podcast that explores language…and plays with it” https://slate.com/podcasts/spectacular-vernacular

Rough Translation, https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510324/rough-translation

En Clair: “forensic linguistics, literary detection, language mysteries and more” http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/enclair/

Films

Gretchen McCulloch has posted a list of Linguistics related films; the list was created by Mary Ann Walter

http://allthingslinguistic.com/post/164037692701/a-very-long-list-of-linguistics-movies