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  Language and Social Interaction Division of NCA http://cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu/~scalsi/
Special division of the National Communication Association promotes the understanding of language as a tool for communication.
  American Dialect Society http://www.americandialect.org/
Scholarly association dedicated to the study of the English language in North America.
  PBS - Do You Speak American? http://www.pbs.org/speak/
Companion material to a TV documentary examining the dynamic state of American (USA) English.
  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.
  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.
  Sociolinguistics at the Summer Institute of Linguistics http://www.sil.org/sociolx/
Sociolinguistic research aids in the planning of SIL language development programs. View language survey results and publications of the SIL.
  BBC - Voices http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/
Resource for exploring language diversity in the UK features voice recordings of social and regional dialects, articles and news on linguistics and classroom materials.
  Lingva Prismo http://lingvo.info/
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.
  International Dialects of English Archive http://web.ku.edu/idea/
A repository of primary source recordings for actors and other artists in the performing arts.
  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.
  Buckeye Natural Speech Corpus http://buckeyecorpus.osu.edu/
Corpus of conversations recorded in Columbus, Ohio provides data for the study of variation in speech. Data access information, forums and details about the project.
  Sociolingo’s African Linguistics http://sociolingo.wordpress.com/
Mali weblog discusses African language policies and provides links to news and information on African sociolinguistics.
  Accents and Dialects of the UK http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/
Learning resource of the British Library gives simple but detailed information on dialects and language variation in the UK.
  Sociolinguistics and Computer Mediated Conversation http://sociocmc.blogspot.com/
Online research group and community blog site explores the intersection of Sociolinguistics and Computer-Mediated Communication.
  Sociolinguistics Graduate Program at UPenn http://www.ling.upenn.edu/research/socio.html
Leading graduate program in sociolinguistics includes links to associated faculty and scholars.
  Stanford University Sociolinguistics http://www.stanford.edu/dept/linguistics/socio/
Stanford Sociolinguistics focuses on social influences of language variation. The corpus-based research program investigates regional and ethnic varieties of American English as well as pidgins and creoles.
  Atlas of North American English http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/
A survey of linguistic changes in progress in North American English.
  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.
  Sociolinguistics Laboratory - University of Ottawa http://www.sociolinguistics.uottawa.ca/
Research program concentrates on language change in different contact situations in Canada and elsewhere.
  University of Edinburgh Sociolinguistics Research Group http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/research/glic/index.shtml
University of Edinburgh sociolinguistics discussion group examines how the context of language shapes its forms and uses. Find topic lists, participant biographies and meeting schedules.
  North Carolina Language and Life Project http://www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/ncllp/index.php
An organization performing sociolinguistic research and leading educational programs in representative speech communities.
  Language and Social Action Research Project http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/sosio/project/affiliation/index.htm
Collaborative research project studies the social organization of affiliation and disaffiliation using sociolinguistic conversational analysis.
  Centre for Language and Ecology http://www.ecoling.net/
Supporting research into discourse analysis of language/texts which have ecological impact.
  Sociolinguistics Introduction http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/socioling/index.html
Brief overview of sociolinguistics describes how the social context of language can affect its use.
  LSA Fields of Linguistics - Sociolinguistics http://www.lsadc.org/info/ling-fields-socio.cfm
A brief introduction to the field by Walt Wolfram of North Carolina State University.
  Sociolinguistics as a Concept of 'Language' http://phiallfish.chez.com/und_essays/Sociolings.html
Undergraduate essay compares the sociolinguistic view of language as a continuum of varieties to the formal linguistic view of a fixed structure of rules.
  Language Attitudes Toward Written Taiwanese http://ebook.de-han.org/attitude/
A survey on current issues regarding the Taiwanese writing system.
  LWP - The Language in the Workplace Project http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/research/lwp/index.aspx
Research project at Victoria University of Wellington studying workplace interactions in New Zealand.

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