Blogs, podcasts and films

Reading widely in a subject area is a great way to become familiar with it. But there is 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 that will enhance your understanding of concepts in the textbook. We have also provided a link to a list of films related to linguistics.

Blogs

All Things Linguistic, Gretchen McCulloch, http://allthingslinguistic.com/
Deborah Cameron’s Language: A Feminist Guide blog, https://debuk.wordpress.com/
Harmless Drudgery, about lexicography, https://korystamper.wordpress.com/
Language Log, a long-standing, multi-authored site, http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/
Language and New Media, a blog for students on the module Language and New Media at the University of Reading but open to all! https://ls2lnm.wordpress.com/about/
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
Sociolinguistics and Computer Mediated Conversation,http://sociocmc.blogspot.com/

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/
A World in Words, ‘The World in Words podcast is about language – everything from bilingual education to the globalization of English to Icelandic insults’, http://www.pri.org/collections/world-words

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