Suggested Research Paper Subjects

Remember that these are subjects not topics and they are presented without theses.

• The benefits of euphemistic usage
• The ebonics controversy
• The controversy between phonics and whole language
• Ways of combating gender, ethnic, or racial bias in language
• Black English Venacular (BEV)
• Sign language Poetry
• Transformational-generative grammar
• Language deceit in advertising
• The dangers of doublespeak
• What's lost when a language dies
• Any issues surrounding descriptivism/prescriptivism
• Is grammar taught in our schools today?
• Is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis more than a hypothesis?
• The English-only movement
• Spanglish or Franglish
• The language of health care professionals
• Why is it difficult to learn a second language, or is it?
• The language of cyberspace
• Is the Vermont dialect a thing of the past?
• Technical language
• Is jargon a necessity?
• Indo-European
• Families of language beyond Indo-European
• Any psycholinguistic issue
• Linguistic imperialism
• Official languages
• Why teachers of English need to study the English language
• What tips of the slonge can tell us about language processing in the brain
• What is syntax?
• What is grammar?
• How can we help the language delayed child?
• The language of split-brain patients
• How can we deal with stroke-related linguistic damage
• The continuity paradox
• Poetic language
• Language deprivation
• The linguistics of feral children
• Stuttering
• Proxemics
• Kinesics
• Second-language training abroad
• Regional and social variation of American English
• Slang
• Swearing