Language Log

Language Log
EditorMark Liberman
EditorGeoffrey Pullum
FormatBlog
First issueJuly 28, 2003 (2003-07-28)
CountryUSA
Based inInstitute for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania
LanguageEnglish
Websitelanguagelog.ldc.upenn.edu

Language Log is a collaborative language blog maintained by Mark Liberman, a phonetician at the University of Pennsylvania.

Most of the posts focus on language use in the media and in popular culture. Text available through Google Search frequently serves as a corpus to test hypotheses about language. Other popular topics include the descriptivism/prescriptivism debate, and linguistics-related news items. The site has occasionally held contests in which visitors attempt to identify an obscure language.

As of 2012, Kristin Denham and Anne Lobeck characterized Language Log as "one of the most popular language sites on the Internet".[1] As of June 2011 it received an average of almost 21,000 visits per day.[2] In May 2006 Liberman and Geoffrey Pullum published a compilation of some of their blog posts in book form under the title Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log.[3]

  1. ^ Denham, Kristin; Lobeck, Anne (2012). Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction (2 ed.). Cengage Learning. p. 14. ISBN 9781111344382. Retrieved June 30, 2015. The Language Log ... has a few thousand daily visitors and is one of the most popular language sites on the Internet.
  2. ^ Language Log's Sitemeter stats
  3. ^ Liberman, Mark; Pullum, Geoffrey K. (2006). Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log. William, James & Company. ISBN 9781590280553. Retrieved June 30, 2015.