Blogs, magazines and general interest

Babel

A language magazine for non-specialist readers with an interest in linguistic and language-related issues, featuring contributions from major figures in the world of linguistics.

http://www.babelzine.com/

David Crystal

The writer of many popular books on linguistics regularly updates his blog with thoughts on current issues to do with language.

http://david-crystal.blogspot.co.uk/

Language Log

A popular linguistics blog that is updated daily with articles looking at language in the media and popular culture.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/

Linguist List

A website providing a forum for those interested in linguistics to discuss linguistic issues, with news on conferences, jobs and publications

http://linguistlist.org/about.cfm

A Little Feminist Blog on Language

A regularly updated blog on issues to do with language and gender.

http://alittlefeministblogonlanguage.blogspot.co.uk/

Corpus tools

The British National Corpus

A 100 million word corpus of written and spoken language. A good place for those interested in using corpus tools to take a first look at what they can do.

http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/

Wmatrix

A useful and simple to use software tool for corpus studies.

http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/

Journals

Applied Linguistics

Linguistic research relating to real world problems.

http://applij.oxfordjournals.org/

Discourse and Society

Essential journal publishing research from discourse analysis, with research focusing on the relationships between language and social, political and cultural issues.

http://das.sagepub.com/

Discourse Studies

Research on the structures and strategies of written and spoken discourse.

http://dis.sagepub.com/

Intercultural Pragmatics

Promotes the development and understanding of pragmatic theory and intercultural competence

http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/iprg

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Original research focusing on empirical work within linguistics.

http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/ijcl/main

Journal of English Linguistics

Original linguistic research from across the discipline.

http://eng.sagepub.com/

Journal of Language, Aggression and Conflict

New journal for cutting edge research focusing on language in relation to aggression and conflict.

http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/jlac/main

Journal of Politeness Research

Research on various aspects of politeness — and impoliteness — as a complex linguistic and non-linguistic phenomenon.

http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jplr

Journal of Pragmatics

Latest research on pragmatics, covering speech acts, metaphor, corpus linguistics and more.

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-pragmatics/

Language and Literature

Leading publication providing the latest research and developments in stylistics.

http://lal.sagepub.com/ 

Pragmatics and Society

Concerned with how language use and social normativity influence and shape each other in education, politics, business and elsewhere

http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/ps/main

Text and Talk

Interdisciplinary research in language, discourse and communication studies.

http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/text

 

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