Linguistics

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Use this guide as a starting point to find information for your assignments. Discover the best keywords and databases to use for your topic by asking a librarian for a Subject Search.

Key databases

LLBA Selected Full Text
Language and Linguistic Behavior Abstracts covers all aspects of language and applied linguistics, including language teaching and learning.

DELTAA: Australian flag
DELTAA abstracts research in Australia and New Zealand into teaching English to Adults.

JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology.

MLA
MLA is the standard guide to literary criticism of world authors. It also includes coverage of folklore and linguistics.

SAGE Premier Full Text
SAGE Premier includes 550+ titles in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine with full-text back to 1999.
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ERIC
The ERIC database abstracts the academic literature in the field of education. ProQuest Help

Gale Databases Selected Full Text
The Gale Databases cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. They includes peer-reviewed journal articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest includes academic and non-academic content in a wide range of fields, from arts, literature, and social science to business, science, technology, and medicine.

APA-FT Australian flag Full Text
Australian Public Affairs Full-Text provides access to articles from nearly 400 journals in the social sciences and humanities.

Worth a look

Anthropological Index Online
Indexes periodical literature on languages, linguistics, culture, archaeology, ethnography, religion and civilisation.

Anthrosource Selected Full Text
Anthrosource is a searchable archive of the journals, newsletters, and bulletins published by the American Anthropological Society.

Duke Scholarly Collection Full Text
The Duke Journals deal with academic research into the humanities and the social sciences.

SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.

Taylor & Francis Full Text
Access journals in the humanities, economics, management, geography, environmental sciences and the social sciences.

Web of Knowledge
Search Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, CAB Abstracts and Journal Citation Reports.

Web of Science Training

Wiley Online Library Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
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Linguistics Library

Search the online catalogue for the Steve Johnson (SJ) Library at the School of Linguistics. Note that books from the Library are available for loan only to on-campus students and staff.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Dictionary List includes dozens of online dictionaries for different languages.

Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online offers a range of dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.

Oxford Reference Online includes bilingual dictionaries, English dictionaries and thesaurii, and English Language references (International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics amongst others).

SAGE eReference
SAGE eReference is a set of multidisciplinary encyclopedias.

Sage eReference includes the Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education and the Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education.

Assignment guides

LING451 Issues in Applied Linguistics

Web sites and Internet resources

Organisations

AAAL —The homepage for the American Association for Applied Linguistics, this site has a graduate program directory, a job register, and links towards professional development.
Australian Linguistics Network — Lists Australian and New Zealand societies and University departments, as well as other general linguistic resources.
BAAL — The homepage of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, with conference papers and a useful links site.
CAL — The Centre for Applied Linguistics website. A non-profit organisation, they have news, databases, project links, clearinghouses, and job listings.
CILT — The homepage of the Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research in the UK.
CSAA — The Cultural Studies Association of Australia's site, with announcements on jobs, conferences, papers and research grants, and a useful resources list.
Linguistics Association of Great Britain — Hosts a bibliographic citation database, as well as news of conferences, information about joining the association, and job listings.

Websites

CALL EJ Online — A full-text e-journal with useful articles for those interested in the role that computers and the Internet can play in fostering cultural links and learning languages.
Endangered Languages Database — part of Cambridge University's World Oral Literature Project, you can search by region or country, level of endangerment and number of speakers.
Integrational Linguistics — This site offers online texts, basic readings, a portal site, and an email 'Help Desk' for the theory of integrational linguistics.
Lexicon of Linguistics — Created by Utrecht University, this has a handy search engine to find definitions of linguistic terms.
Linguistics Meta-Index — Containing site links on linguistics, natural language and computational linguistics, this portal site is categorized for easy identificaton of topics.
The Linguist List — Links to research papers, language resources, teaching resources (including English as a Second Language), linguistic journals and professional associations.
Resources in Language Testing — A language testing database, articles, reviews, news and conference details.
The sci.lang FAQ — Frequently Asked Questions from this useful newsgroup. Also has a link to show you how to join.
SIL International — Formerly the Summer Institute of Languages. A comprehensive listing of resources, fieldwork and research.