INDV 101 - Language: Library Research Guide
What you need to know to beginning your sociolinguistic sketch:
Finding Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Use scholarly articles, not magazine articles.Don't know the difference? Click here to find out. Check with your Section Leader if you have doubts about the suitability of an article.
You may use some of the more general data bases for this assignment. Be sure to be very specific with your search terms. Use words that will point your search toward linguistics or sociolinguistics. For example, the terms: kinship and (Ghana or Akan) and (language or sociolinguistics) will retrieve an article titled "Non-kinship Address Terms in Akan" in Academic Search Premier.
Need help formulating a search strategy? Try this Search Strateqy Builder and the copy and paste your results into the search box of a data base.
These databases are focused more closely on language and linguistics.
- LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts)
Links to articles, many have full text and also indexes book chapters. Search the catalog by the BOOK's title to see if the Library owns the book.
- AnthroSource(anthropology and linguistics)
All articles are full text.
- Annual Review of Anthropology
All articles are full text.
This new data base, Blackwell Reference Online: Linguistics wil help you find chapters in scholarly books on linguistics. BE SURE you are searching within the Linguistics group of books. All chapters are full text. These chapters can help you understand your topic, e.g. dialects, more fully and lead you to other sources and languages which you may wish to research.