1. All-purpose sites for students (No link. It's #1, right below)

2. Language and linguistics in general (click here)

3. English First, Politics, Bilingual Ed, Official Languages, World Languages, Artificial Languages (click here)

4. Endangered and minority languages (click here)

5. Miscellaneous (click here)

6. Weird  and interesting Stuff (click here)

7. The Language of Advertising (click here)

There is a great all-purpose website at
http://www.studyweb.com/index2.htm

that has catalogued 70,000 worthwhile websites in various academic disciplines. It will save you the trouble of sifting the wheat from the chaff. At least, that's what they claim.Try it. Their "linguistics" page is in section two, below, of this page.

The Librarian's InternetIndex is an excellent resource:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/
 

This, from a colleague:
" I am having good results referring students with
language weaknesses to Purdue University's online writing lab at
http://owl.english.purdue.edu.
 

Writers' Resources on the Web
http://www.interlog.com/~ohi/www/writesource.html

The English Server at CMU. Extensive, well-designed site with links to hundreds of resources in language, music, philosophy, humanities --you name it.
http://english.hss.cmu.edu/

 Advice on Research & Writing
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mleone/how-to.html
 

Basic Legal Citation
http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/citation.table.html

For an extraordinary,  well-organized to link to literature available on the WWW, see
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel

For 100 or so classics (by Machiavelli, More, Hume, Bacon, Locke, Kant,
Spinoza, etc.) available in various formats, visit the "Liberty Library of
Constitutional Classics" at http://www.constitution.org/liberlib.htm.
 

And a somewhat off-the-wall commercial site:
The Plain English Homepage, at
http://www.wordcentre.co.uk/
It claims to cure gobbledygook and other language ills.

For Wordwatch, an interesting page which keeps track of current English usage, see
http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk:80/wordwatch.html

Then, for all-purpose searching for texts of all kinds, try these two:
http://wiretap.area.com
 

The Encyclopeida Britannica Web Search page is excellent:
http://www.eblast.com/
 

On-line dictionaries are available at
http://www.brown.edu/Student_Services/Writing_Center/dictiona.htm

The Cornell Law Library will get you almost anything you might need in the way of court decisions and federal and state laws:
http://www.law.cornell.edu
 

For example, recent Supreme Court decisions are archived in full text at
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/

Library WWW Servers. A worldwide directory of libraries on the web, at
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/libweb

Literature Webliography. A guide to scholarly library resources, at
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/lit.html

The New York Review of Books has started a project to put its entire 30-some-year history of book reviews on-line. So far, they are only back to 1996, but it's still worth a look:
http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev
 

Here is link for those of you who have wondered what  computer
people are talking about. It contains excellent material for those interested in leaning more about the Internet.
http://www.whatis.com/

Another such site is
http://www.webopedia.com
 

For a book on Elements of E-Text style, see:
gopher://wiretap.area.com/11/Books

The new on-line version of the MIT Encyclopedia of the Cogntive
Sciences is at
http://mitpress.mit.edu/MITECS/
 

A fine article search site is at
http://www.northernlight.com/
They charge for copyrighted articles, but give you a free $25 start-up. They also have WWW copyrightfree material for free. This site will find articles for you on almost anything!

The Atlantic Monthly has put all of their articles from every issue on-line for free. See
www.theatlantic.com

Also, try the website of the Scientific American for anything having to do with science.
http://www.sciam.com

Gold mine! The New York Times has a free article search service at
http://www.nytimes.com

There is an excellent general search engine at
http://www.infind.com

Don't forget National Public Radio. You can download the necessary ReadAudio shareware to listen to the selections, or you can call up printed transcipts.
http://www.npr.com

A good place to start is the Yahoo language and linguistics page at:
http://www.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Linguistics_and_Human_Languages/

The  Language Page from the Wisdom Search Engine is at
http://www.thinkers.net/Languages/

Then, try
http://www.studyweb.com/grammar/lang/linguist.htm
for an excellent general search page on language and linguistics. This is the "linguistics" page of the <studyweb.com> listed as the first entry on this page, section 1, above.

Another good site for the Humanities is at
http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu

For language and linguistics go to their Languagelink, or
http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/langs/

Also, see The Human Languages Page at
http://www.june29.com/HLP/

Then, one of the great language sites, The Summer Institute of Linguistics at
http://www.sil.org/linguistics

The Linguistic Society of America is at
www.lsadc.org

An excellent general site on Language & Linguistics  with dozens of interesting links to everything from Welsh lessons to Palindromes to Esperanto is at:
http://eserver.org/langs/

The University of Rochester maintains an excellent general search page for linguistics
at: http://www.ling.rochester.edu/links/topics.html
 

There is an "Internaional Guide to Language Resources" at
http://www.fln.vcu.edu/

The Humanitas language and linguistics  site is at
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/hilights.html#linguistics
 

A good general site or language and linguistics is
http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/websites.htm
 

A "Worldwide Virtual Library" of linguistics is at
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Cog-Ling-Sci/lingdir/dictionary.html
 

There is another good general site at
http://www.pcg.it/home/poesia/~p/poeti.htm
with links to general pages as well as specific links to pages dealing with languages and dialects of Italy.
 

For an excellent site, especially on language learning and "less commonly taught" languages.
 http://www.sussex.ac.uk/langc/CALL.html

The Evolution P&M homepage, a small publishing company has a site at
http://www.netaxs.com/~salvucci/evolution.html
with a link to a page on "American dialects".
 

A good one for the general area of cognitive science is
http://web.mit.edu/bcs/www/bcshome/cogsci.html

Also, at MIT,
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/org/l/linguistics/www/info.html

A good general link page is at:
http://www.ling.rochester.edu/linglinks.html

Another good general page:
www.emich.edu/~linguist/topics.html

(That is the URL for Linguist List, an excellent all-around  site. It has a separate page of links to other linguistics sites that you may see by clicking here.)

Also, Sociolinguistics resources
http://sil.org/linguistics/topical.html#sociolinguistics
( a link from the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) home page, mentioned above)

Also, MIT Linguistics
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/org/l/linguistics/www/home
(Home Page for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology language mavens. Site of the famed Media Lab. They do lots of fine research in speech recognition and theoretical linguistics, among other things. Great school. Terrible basketball team.)

Linguistic Resources
http://www.sil.org/linguistics
(another link from the SIL .)

Cognitive Science Initiative: Language Lexicon
http://www.hfac.uh.edu/cogsci/lang/Entries/index.html
 

There's an excellent  program called Lingua Franca on Radio National  (RN  -Australia)
Transcripts are at:
www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/ling/stories/index.htm

There is an excellent all-purpose language site at
http://linguistlist.org  There is even an "Ask a linguist" Q&A page with discissions on various topics
 

 Here is one of the most comprehensively linked sites on  bilingual education and the so-called "English First" movement. You can even link through to a page on the current state of language legislation in the US:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/

Also, John Rickford writes extensively on sociolinguistics. His website is
http://www.stanford.edu/~rickford/

The American Civil Liberties Union has a postion paper on the English Only topic at
http://www.aclu.org./library/pbp6.html
 

URL for   US English (an organization backing the idea English as the official language of the US ):
http://www.us-english.org/)

Also,in the May issue of The Atlantic, Rosalie Pedalino Porter wrote an article called "The Case Against Bilingual Education" (see:
http://www.the atlantic.com/issues/98may/biling.htm)
 

Click here for a  article arguing against English First. It is one of the items available at
http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Article/Language/
 

Ebonics
http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/topics/ebonics/
(This is one of the most controversial items in recent American sociolinguistics. Here you will find newspaper and magazine articles on the topic, as well as discussion.)

http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/library/policy/legislation.htm
provides a list of legislation on issues of language now before Congress as well as a list of groups that concern themselves with language policy in the US

The main website, above, is a good starting point for material on bilingual education:
http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu

For a pro-BLE site that will link you to, among many other items, the original anti-BLE Ynz Initiative which prompted the recent Proposition 227 in California, see
http://www.smartnation.org

The URL for the California Association for Bilingual Education is
www.bilingualeducation.org

There are numerous sites dealing with English as a World Language. The easiest way to find them is to go to
http://yahoo.com

then, in the search space, type in  <"english" AND "world language" >

An excellent site on World English is
http://wire.ap.org/APpackages/english/

For info on Basic English, proposed by some as a possible world language, see
http://web.marshallnet.com/~manor/basiceng/
 

For sites on Esperanto and artifical languages, try <yahoo.com >again and type in
"esperanto".  There are over 100 sites of interest.

A good site dealing with artifical languages in general in
http://www.vor.nu/langlab.index.html
 

Truly, one of the strangest items in the field of artificial languages is

"BLISS is a pictographical and ideographical symbol system that was
developed 50 years ago by Charles K. Bliss. It is still under development.
Inspired by Chinese characters and the idea that a common language could
avoid wars he worked on the language for more than 40 years.
Nevertheless it was forgotten for many years and re-discovered in Canada
in the 1970's. BLISS was successfully used to support non-speaking persons
in communication. Meanwhile, BLISS is the most widespread symbolic
language worldwide, that leaves the barriers of spoken language behind it
and can be understood worldwide." (Click here for more).

For artificial and constructed Languages, see
http://www.quetzal.com/conlang.html

Also, at
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5383/tanerai.html

there is this:

"Taneraic is the English cognate given by its author, Javant Biarujia, to his constructed language, tanerai. It was created in 1968 as the language for his private journal, begun in 1970."

This guy invented a private language for his journal!

If you are interested in bilingual parenting, there is a page at
http://www.byu.edu/~bilingua/

which will let you read how some parents raise their children to speak more than one language, and even gives you the chance to tell your own similar story and join a discussion group on the subject.

There is a good George Orwell site at
http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/patee.html

There actually is a website where you can listen to some of the great speeches of the last sixty years:
http://www.chicago-law.net/speeches/speech.html

also, for politcial speeches, see:
http://www.stkate.edu/library/internet/speeches.html

and for commercial slogans, see
http://www. advertising.utexas.edu/world/index.html#Index

Preserving Linguistic Diversity is the theme of a website at

http://cougar.ucdavis.edu/nas/terralin/endlangs.html

This is Terralingua's Internet Resource List on Language Endangerment,Survival, and
Revitalizationan. The page provides an exhausive list of internet resources, with dozens of URL links, dealing with the state and preservation of endangered languages.
 

Also, there is an excellent website on the minority languages in Europe at:
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/saoghal/mion-chanain/Failte_en.html

and another at
http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/endangered.html

For bilingual education involving the minority languages of Europe, see
http://www.fa.knaw.nl/mercator/

Then, the  Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) has a website at
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Philosophy/CTLL/FEL/

The site lets you download, free,  the FEL's newsletter, a goldmine of information on the situation of endangered languages in the world.

For an excellent site, especially on language learning and "less commonly taught" languages, see
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/langc/CALL.html
 

UCLA has an excellent site on minority languages at
http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/

There is a website covering "minority language of the Spanish-speaking world" at
http://miavx1.muohio.edu/~delvalj/minlang.html

For information on the language of the Gypsies, see
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/5121/language.htm

The Dept  of the Navy Historical Center links to other sites concerning American Indian involvement in WWII and a Navajo Code Talker Dictionary, at
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-2.htm

There's also a video on the Navajo Code Talkers available for order at:
http://www.tullyent.com/html/videos.html

For more on  Navajo Code websites, go to Yahoo and enter <"Navajo and WWII">.
Also, see internal links on this site. (Click here.)

Excellent site on Austrlian Aboriginal Languages at
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASEDA/ASEDA.html

Other excellent sites for minority and indigenous languages:
The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Homepage is at:
http://trc2.ucdavis.edu/ssila/default.asp

Also: Living Languages of the Americas  at
http://www.sil.org/lla/

The best all-around view of what languages are spoken around the world: Ethnologue, 13th edition, 1996,  at
http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/

A sample Ethnologue page showing the languages spoken in the USA is on this site (click here).

Good sites for Cherokee at:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/5918/
http://pages.tca.net/martikw/books_np.html
 

The titles of some are self-explanatory. Others not so.

Lexicon of Linguistics
 http://wwwots.let.ruu.nl/~Hans.Leidekker/lexicon/ll.html

There is another one of these at
http://www.sil.org/linguistics/glossary/

Phonology Course
http://www.stir.ac.uk/epd/celt/staff/higdox/stephen/phono/course/course.htm

Whole Brain Atlas

If you have ever wondered just what the inside of your head looks like, try
http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html

The Word Detective
http://www.users.interport.net/~words1/
(Lots of fun, this one.)

A Web of On-Line Grammars with Grammars on everything from Cherokee to Russian to Swahili is at:
http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/grammars.html
 

If you are interested in studying other languages.
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/langc/CALL.html

Also see this one for foreign language study:
http://www.fln.vcu.edu/

If you get an itch to listen to the Middle English version of the prologue
to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (in "presumably authentic pronunciation"), go to
http://www.siue.edu/chaucer/
 

An excellent site on sign languages is  Sign Linguistics Resource Index, at
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~nzsldict/

On the issue of how such things as e-mail affect the way we communicate, see
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/cyber.html

Brian Carnell has a home page, some links of which will lead you to discussions of language and feminism.
http://www.carnell.com
 

And, a good page for gender issues is
http://cavern.uark.edu/depts/comminfo/www/gender.html

Also, see
http://av.yahoo.com/bin/query?p="language+and+gender"&hc=0&hs=0

The TV series NOVA has at least two programs relevant to language. One is on historical linguistics; the other on language studies done with so-called "wild children". The complete transcripts of the programs are on this site (click here for In Search of the First Language); (Ckick here for Secret of the Wild Child). They are also available at the external URL for NOVA:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova
 

There are a number of sites if you are interested in the works of linguist and science fiction writer Suzette Elgin.

http://www.worldvsdleague.com/
http://www.webspawner.com/users/sfling/
http://adrr.com/lingua/
http://www.interlog.com/~kms/Laadan/
 

6. Weird and Interesting

Filled Pause Research Center
http://www.cisnet.or.jp/home/rlrose/pause/Default.htm
(This is for those who are interested in all the fillers such as "uh" we sprinkle our speech with. Yes, there really is a web-page on this, and it is full of discussion. Some people have too much time on their hands!)

Acronyms and Emoticons
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?pemoticons&yy&e253837&f0%3A253022
%3A253837&rSocial+Science%02Linguistics+and+Human+Languages
(Finally! A page for those who are going crazy trying to figure out what all these e-mail acronyms mean. The page includes a list of "smileys" (or is it spelled "smilies"?)  AKA "emoticons". Please don't drive me crazy with those things, or, as we say, PDDMCWTT.

Dweebonics
http://www.clearlight.com/~oblio/dweebonic/index.html
An amusing take-off on the "Ebonics" issue.

Here is the URL for The Hacker's Dicitionary. It has some excellent stuff on language, in general, in the introduction:
http://www.ccil.org/jargon/

A site that converts the text from any web page into Pig Latin!
http://voyager.cns.ohiou.edu/~jrantane/menu/pig.html

And one reviews the rules of pig latin:
http://www2.vip.net/~robertja/piglatin.htm

Or, if you prefer to listen to pig latin, this page offers a choice of
voices -  Big Man, Woman, or Child - and speeds:
http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/piglatin.html

And for those Spanish-speakers out there, you'll be happy to know that
there is a Spanish Pig Latin Page:
http://www.muw.edu/~rmccalli/SplgpayAtinlay.html

Of course it's easier to go to the Yahoo or google.com  search engines and enter "pig latin". You'll get a list of these sites and more.

For Cockney, see:
http://www.embl-hamburg.de/~Peter/cockney-faq.html
This is a Cockney/English dictionary, complete from A-Z.

And  another Cockney/English dictionary,
http://www.accessv.com/~alderton/sl_eng.htm
 

http://nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca/~foote/cockney.html
This site gives a little more history on CRS: "Cockney rhyming slang is a
dialect which originated in the early 19th century in England. It consists
of phrases of 2 or 3 words which rhyme with the word they replace.

Here are four good sites on one of the most interesting language experiments in US history: the invention of a new alphabet by the Mormons in the last century:

http://www.wp.com/BrionZion/homealph.htm
The Deseret Alphabet Home page.

http://www.unicode.org/pending/deseret/Proposal.html
Very detailed. With the alphabet and pics of a children's book and the  title page of The Book of Mormon in the deseret characters.

http://mormons.org/daily/history/1844_1877/deseret_alphabet_eom.htm
Short history of the alphabet and a couple of pics.

http://www.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/MUSEUMS/HIST/thiswas/deseret.htm
Another general history with 1 pic. Pretty much duplicates the first  two sites.
 

This is the best site on advertising I have found on the internet.
http://www.utexas.edu/coc/adv/world/AW500.html

Links to Media/Marketing Sources:
 http://www.zenithmedia.com/

Parodies of Ads :
 http://www.adbusters.org/

The Gallery of Advertising Parody:
http://www.dnai.com/~sharrow/parody.html

Collection of Quotes on Adverstising:
 http://advertising.utexas.edu/research/quotes

Advertising "Graveyard"--Ads that never made it! (Check this one out. Some of them are in unbelievably bad taste! There, now --doesn't that tempt you?!)
 http://www.zeldman.com/ad.html

History of top ads, campaigns, slogans:
 http://www.adage.com/century/

The Language of Advertising:
 http://www.linguarama.com/ps/293-6.htm

Ad Access:  http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/

The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000"
 Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000
 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines
 between 1911 and 1955.

Advertising Awards: http://www.aaf.org/awards/addy.htm

"June 7, 2000 — The American Advertising Federation (AAF) today announced the
winners of the largest and most representative competition in American advertising — the 2000
ADDY® Awards for creative excellence. The AAF awarded 105 national ADDY® Awards from among 1,569 finalists and close to 60,000 total entries.