General Audience
Schilling, Natalie. What’s your word for the night before Halloween? Psychology Today, ‘Language in the Wild’ blog, October 2025:
Schilling, Natalie. Linguistic fingerprints? Psychology Today, ‘Language in the Wild’ blog, August 2025:
Schilling, Natalie. Getting used to ‘used to’ and ‘use to’. Episode written for Grammar Girl Podcast, September 2025.
Schilling, Natalie. “It’s a swing, and a ‘near miss’?!” Why a ‘near miss’ isn’t a hit and what that has to do with baseball. Episode written for Grammar Girl Podcast, August 2025.
Schilling, Natalie. Let’s take a ‘sick’ day! Why ‘sick’ means ‘awesome’ (and ‘awesome’ means ‘great’). Episode written for Grammar Girl Podcast, July 2025.
Schilling, Natalie. Awaken up and smell the coffee! Episode written for Grammar Girl Podcast, May 2025.
Schilling, Natalie. Genericide, or The death of a trademark. Episode written for Grammar Girl Podcast, November 2024.
Schilling, Natalie. 2019. Can you use language to solve crimes? In Carolyn Myrick and Walt Wolfram (eds.), The Five-Minute Linguist, 3rd edition. Bite-sized essays on Language and Languages. Sheffield: Equinox. 327-330.
Seals, Corinne A., and Natalie Schilling. 2020. Can people really disguise themselves when writing or speaking? In Bauer, Laurie and Andreea S. Calude (eds.), What Everyone Should Know about Language in the 21st Century. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis/Routledge.
Selected Publications in Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics, and Research Methods
Linguistics
Schilling, Natalie, Derek Denis, and Raymond Hickey (eds.). In press. English in North America and the Caribbean. Volume V of Raymond Hickey (ed.), The New Cambridge History of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Schilling, Natalie. 2016. English in America: A Linguistic History. Video/audio course written and recorded for The Great Courses lecture series, The Teaching Company, Chantilly, VA.
Wolfram, Walt, and Natalie Schilling. 2016. American English: Dialects and Variation, 3rd edition. Malden/Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Forensic Linguistics
Schilling, Natalie. 2019. Can you use language to solve crimes? In Carolyn Myrick and Walt Wolfram (eds.), The Five-Minute Linguist, 3rd edition. Bite-sized essays on Language and Languages. Sheffield: Equinox. 327-330.
Seals, Corinne A., and Natalie Schilling. 2020. Can people really disguise themselves when writing or speaking? In Bauer, Laurie and Andreea S. Calude (eds.), What Everyone Should Know about Language in the 21st Century. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis/Routledge.
Schilling, Natalie, and Alexandria Marsters. 2015. Unmasking identity: Speaker profiling for forensic linguistic purposes. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 35: 195-214.
Research Methods
Schilling, Natalie. 2013. Sociolinguistic Fieldwork. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- This work published by a leading academic press can be used as a textbook, reference work, or field guide. It is useful for researchers and students in a range of research areas where there may be a need to gather data on language in its social context, for example linguistics, languages, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies. The book is both a ‘how-to’ and a critical exploration of methods and the researcher-participant relationship. Included are vignettes on how ‘students in the field’ confronted an array of research issues.
Schilling, Natalie. 2022. ‘Sociolinguistic fieldwork’, in Oxford Bibliographies in “Linguistics” (ed. Mark Aronoff). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- This is a comprehensive annotated bibliography of works in sociolinguistic fieldwork from its founding in the mid-1960s into the third decade of the 21st Included are sections on Foundational Works, Sociolinguistic Interviews, Surveys and Questionnaires, Language Attitudes/Sociolinguistic Perceptions, Ethnographic Sociolinguistics, Signed Languages, Written Sources and Corpus Data, Remote Data Collection, and Community Ethics and Involvement.