A collection of books, articles, journals, essays, and websites addressing language and linguistics issues. This list includes key writings by Georgetown faculty and affiliates, marked by an *asterisk.
General audience
- The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter
- The way we talk now: commentaries on language and culture from NPR's "Fresh Air" by Geoffrey Nunberg
- On Language, Ben Zimmer's (now sadly defunct) column at the New York Times
- The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, by Steven Pinker
- Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue, by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes *
- Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English, By John R. Rickford and Russell J. Rickford
- How to Do Things With Words, by JL Austin
- Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language, by John R. Searle
- Forms of Talk, by Erving Goffman
- Discourse Markers, by Deborah Schiffrin *
- The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, Edited by Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen, and Heidi E Hamilton *
- Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse, by Deborah Tannen *
- Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends, by Deborah Tannen *
- A Guide to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines, by Heidi E Hamilton [forthcoming Summer 2011] *
- American Voices: How Dialects Differ from Coast to Coast, by Walt Wolfram
- Language in the USA: Themes for the Twenty-first Century, Edited by Edward Finnegan and John R. Rickford
- English with an Accent: Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United States, by Rosina Lippi-Green
- Stories, Community, and Place: Narratives from Middle America, by Barbara Johnstone
- Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place, by Gabriella Gahlia Modan *
- John Rickford's page about the "Ebonics" issue
- Beyond Yellow English: Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America , Edited by Angela Reyes and Adrienne Lo
- Sista, Speak! Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy, by Sonja L. Lanehart
- Language and Ethnicity, by Carmen Fought
- Linguistic Minorities and Modernity: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography, by Monica Heller
- Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties, Edited by Kendall King, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Lyn Fogle, Jia Jackie Lou, and Barbara Soukup *
- Understanding English Language Education in U.S. Schools, by Anne H. Charity Hudley and Christine Mallinson
- Dialects in Schools and Communities, by Walt Wolfram, Carolyn Temple Adger, and Donna Christian
- Ethnography, Linguistics, Narrative Inequality: Toward An Understanding Of Voice, by Dell Hymes
- Tongue Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in Public Education, Edited by Otto Santa Ana *
- Verbal Hygiene, by Deborah Cameron
- Language and Power, by Norman Fairclough
- Txtng: The Gr8 Db8, by David Crystal
- Introducing Social Semiotics, by Theo van Leeuwen
- Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World, by Naomi Baron
- The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture, and Communication Online, by Brenda Danet and Susan C. Herring
- danah boyd - social media researcher and champion of all things web 2.0