Marisa Brook

Assistant Professor (she/her)
Linguistics and English
Saint Mary's University (Canada)

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Career resources

Superlinguo: Linguistics Jobs
All Things Linguistic: Linguistics Jobs
Linguistics Careercast
Career Linguist
Exploring Careers with Linguistics Alumni (Northwestern University) [pdf]
Linguistics Career Launch
Linguist List: Career Listings
Linguistic Society of America: Job Center
Linguistic Society of America: Careers
Linguistic Society of America: Linguistics Beyond Academia Special Interest Group
Google Research: Language
Jobs.ac.uk: Languages, Literature, and Culture
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Recommended general-audience reading


Like, Literally, Dude by Valerie Fridland (2023)
You're All Talk by Rob Drummond (2023)
Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch (2019)
The Prodigal Tongue by Lynne Murphy (2018)
In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent (2009)
Talking Hands by Margalit Fox (2007)
Predicting New Words by Allan Metcalf (2002)
The Man Who Deciphered Linear B by Andrew Robinson (2002)
Language Myths edited by Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill (1998)
Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks (1989)

Podcasts and video

Lingthusiasm
Tom's Language Files
Otherwords
The Vocal Fries
NativLang
The History of English Podcast
Spectacular Vernacular
Because Language
The Ling Space
Mysteries of Vernacular
Superlinguo's list of more linguistics-related podcasts

Organizations

Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA/ACL)
Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association (APLA/ALPA)
Canadian Language Museum
Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
American Dialect Society (ADS)
The Linguist List
First Peoples' Cultural Council of British Columbia (FPCC)
Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change Network (DiPVaC)
International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE)
Endangered Language Alliance Toronto
Endangered Language Fund
Endangered Languages Project
North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS)

Databases and resources

Language Profiles Project
Ethnologue
World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS)
First Voices
Language Geek
Dialect Atlas of Newfoundland and Labrador
The Accentism Project
Accent Bias Britain
Yale Grammaticality Diversity Project
English-Corpora.org
Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE)
Dictionnaire Québécois
International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA)

Interactive exhibits

Wordcount
Do You Speak American?
The Pop Versus Soda Page
European Word Translator

Blogs

All Things Linguistic
Superlinguo
Official Linguistics Posts of Tumblr
Canadian Language Museum Blog
Separated by a Common Language
Lingoblog
Language Hat
Not One-Off Britishisms