Marisa Brook

Associate 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
• Ask a Manager

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