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Kristina Pfaff's Linguistic Funland

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The Linguistic Funland was created in 1994 as a list of various linguistics links on a personal homepage. Then a graduate student in linguistics, the author began to accumulate a list of resources that soon grew out of a single page and into this directory. On this site, you'll find resources for language teaching and learning (related to TESL, ESL, and TESOL), linguistics study, and other miscellaneous resources. It even provides scripts for educators and electronic journals. The author of this site, Kristina Pfaff, has a Bachelor of Science in applied science and technology and a Master's degree in linguistics. After working at the University of Nevada and the University of Minnesota, she now works as a CGI (Common Gateway Interface) programmer and systems administrator.

Because she has experience teaching Korean college-level students, there is precious information about teaching English for Korean students in this site. Also, the site provides a lot of link sites related to TESOL. You can get not only teaching skills but also information for related job opportunities.

However, this site lacks in-depth studies or important theses. Therefore, it will be useful for beginners who have interests in linguistics and English education in general.

This site was last updated in June 2007.

(Last reviewed July 6, 2007.)

URL : http://www.linguistic-funland.com

Keyword(s) : lingusitics, teaching English, Korean, TESOL

Pragmatics Initiative

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This website provides resources pertaining to formal pragmatics under the program “Pragmatics Initiative,” designed by Ohio State University. It mainly focuses on presupposition and accommodation.

The program aims to deepen an ongoing graduate study and research in the field of pragmatics, the study of how context affects language use, and interpretation. The website has some links for the sponsors of the program such as the linguistics department of the university and other departments, resources such as articles and annotated bibliography, information about conferences on presupposition and accommodation, and scholars of the field.

This website is useful to those who want to study (formal) pragmatics more thoroughly.

(Last reviewed July 6, 2007.)

URL : http://pragmatics.osu.edu/

Keyword(s) : formal pragmatics, presupposition, accommodation

Australian Linguistic Society

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The Australian Linguistic Society is the national organization for linguists and linguistics in Australia. Its primary goal is to further interest in and support for linguistics research and teaching in Australia. The Society, established in 1967, publishes the Australian Journal of Linguistics (AJL), a journal of international standing, which includes articles from all areas of linguistics, although having a particular focus on linguistics carried out by Australian linguists or about Australian indigenous languages or Australian English.

The Australian Journal of Linguistics (AJL), the journal of the Australian Linguistic Society, is published twice a year. Tables of contents and abstracts from volume 20 can be found from the AJL homepage on the site of the publisher, Taylor & Francis (Routledge). If the users subscribe to AJL, it should also be possible to view articles from volumes 20 in PDF format on the web; otherwise, they have the option of paying to download a particular article.

This homepage is fairly good for graduate students or professors who are interested in linguistics, but there are no explanations or definitions about basic linguistic terms or theories, which lead to difficulties for non-majoring visitors.

This site was last updated in May 2007.

(Last reviewed July 6, 2007.)

URL : http://www.als.asn.au

Keyword(s) : linguistics, Australian English

Željko Bošković

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This is a personal website of Željko Bošković. He is a professor in the Linguistics Department at University of Connecticut. His focus of studies are syntactic theory, comparative syntax, Slavic linguistics, Balkan linguistics, and Romance linguistics.

On the first page, this web site provides Željko Bošković's office number, office phone number, and an e-mail address. Anyone who is willing to contact him could easily utilize this information. Moreover, the first page has Bošković's representative publications and his visiting positions. If the visitor clicks the "Papers to download" section, people can find his various papers organized by the years of publication. This kind of organization is beneficial and user-friendly to the visitors of the site as people can easily find the paper they want to read. In addition, if the readers click the titles of the papers, they can directly reach the papers they want to read. On the "Uconn" and "Uconn Linguistics" sections, the visitors can directly link to the site of the University of Connecticut, and the Linguistics department of Connecticut. Thus, people who are interested in this school can follow these links.

As this is a personal website, visitors who are interested in his works could benefit from visiting this site. In addition, as he is a professor at University of Connecticut, students who are applying to this school and trying to major in syntax could benefit by visiting this site.

(Last reviewed May 28, 2007.)

URL : http://web.uconn.edu/boskovic/index.html

Keyword(s) : syntax, comparative linguistics

iLoveLanguages

iLoveLanguages is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The more than 2400 links at iLoveLanguages have been hand-reviewed to bring you the best language links the Web has to offer. Whether you're looking for online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, or just a little information on a language you've heard about, iLoveLanguages probably has something to suit your needs. To use iLoveLanguages, click on one of the tabs near the top of the page to browse the database of web sites, or use the Search box to look for sites matching your criteria. The buttons below the tabs let you learn more about iLoveLanguages, suggest a new site to add, or contact the webmaster. Formerly known as The Human-Languages Page, iLoveLanguages is still your biggest and best guide to language-related web sites.

This site provides a huge amount of information about language from trivial words to teaching resources. This site even notifies visitors of schedules for several conferences and lectures. Also, the information which is offered through this site is basic, so anyone can get some knowledge about language and linguistics.

However, it lacks in-depth studies or important theses. Therefore, it will be useful to those beginners who have interest in language and linguistics in general.

This site was last updated in May 2007.

(Last reviewed July 3, 2007.)

URL : http://www.ilovelanguages.com

Keyword(s) : language, linguistics, teaching