This is a curated database of articles that is intended to help those new to linguistics (particularly students) find scholars and methods, which might inform their own work. The database includes both more quantitatively driven research, as well as research that is qualitative. The articles have been selected for their range of topics, as well as their relative approachability. (And if you have not read many research articles, you might check this out.) The database is by no means comprehensive. And I would encourage students to use any articles that they find compelling as a jumping off point to read more from those scholars, as well as whom they cite and who cites them (which is easily done in Google Scholar). If you have any suggestions, please let me know here.
| Title | Year | Author/Institution | Journal | Key Words | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Performing blackness, forming whiteness: Linguistic minstrelsy in Hollywood film | 2011 | Bucholtz, Mary, and Qiuana Lopez | Journal of Sociolinguistics | screen media, gender, ethnicity | link |
| Pittsburghese shirts: Commodification and the enregisterment of an urban dialect | 2009 | Johnstone, Barbara | American Speech | attitudes | link |
| Politics and the German language: Testing Orwell's hypothesis using the Google N-Gram corpus | 2016 | Caruana-Galizia, Paul | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities | corpus linguistics, history | link |
| Print and the female voice: Representations of women's crime in London | 2010 | Shoemaker, Robert B. | Gender & History | corpus linguistics, law, history | link |
| Qualification and certainty in L1 and L2 students' writing | 1997 | Hyland, Ken, and John Milton | Journal of Second Language Writing | corpus linguistics, academic writing | link |
| Says who? Teaching and questioning the rules of grammar | 2009 | Curzan, Anne | PMLA | academic writing, attitudes | link |
| Smoke and mirrors: Event patterns in the discourse structure of a romance novel | 1999 | Ryder, Mary Ellen | Journal of pragmatics | literature, gender | link |
| So sick or so cool? The language of youth on the internet | 2016 | Tagliamonte, Sali A. | Language in Society | corpus linguistics, CMC | link |
| So weird; so cool; so innovative: The use of intensifiers in the television series Friends | 2005 | Tagliamonte, Sali, and Chris Roberts | American Speech | screen media, history | link |
| Stance and engagement: A model of interaction in academic discourse | 2005 | Hyland, Ken | Discourse Studies | corpus linguistics, academic writing | link |