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Linguistics: Reference Sources Online

Reference sources online

Use reference sources for definitions and overviews as you begin your research.
These are online. We have many more in print which can be found through MultiSearch or GIL-Find.

Reference sources online

Ethnologue.com This link opens in a new window
Descriptions, maps and statistics about languages of the world.
Up-to-date descriptions, maps and statistics about the over 7,000 languages of the world. From the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL). The academic subscription does not include the "Premium Maps" feature.
Oxford Handbooks Online in Linguistics This link opens in a new window
Online handbooks for linguistics by Oxford University Press
Oxford Handbooks Online in Linguistics is a digital collection of handbooks published by Oxford University Press containing in-depth, high-level articles by expert scholars in their fields. Each handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship. Handbook articles review the key issues and cutting-edge debates, as well as providing arguments for how those debates might evolve.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed encyclopedia of linguistics research updated monthly.
An ongoing, expanding peer-reviewed encyclopedia of linguistics research updated monthly. Covers all sub-fields of linguistics through the use of summary articles and in-depth articles on particular topics within sub-fields. Overseen by an editorial board of subject experts.

Google Books Ngram Viewer: When you enter words or phrases into the Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how often they occur in a corpus of books over the decades. Selected languages available.

Lexicon of Linguistics: Definitions of linguistic terms.

Linguistic Resources on the Internet: SIL International describes this as "a topically organized list of resources elsewhere on the Internet that may be of interest to the linguist." Covers the principal categories of linguistic research.

Omniglot: The Online Encyclopedia of Writing Systems: A guide to over 180 different alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems.

Summer Institute of Linguistics Glossary: Definitions and illustrative examples of linguistic terms and concepts.

Reference ebooks: Linguistics, Communication, Mass media

Routledge linguistics encyclopedia (2010)
Call Number: P29
Language Socialization
Call Number: P40.5
Publication Date: 2017, 3rd ed.
Cataloguing the World's Endangered Languages (2018)
Call Number: P40.5
Research Methods in Language and Education
Call Number: P40.8
Publication Date: 2017
Language Policy and Political Issues in Education
Call Number: P40.8
Publication Date: 2017
Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning (2013)
Call Number: P51
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (2016)
Call Number: P53
Encyclopedia of Communication Theory
Call Number: P87.5
Publication Date: 2009
Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies
Call Number: P87.5
Publication Date: 2015
21st Century Communication (2009)
Call Number: P90
Communication Research Measures II (2009)
Call Number: P91.3
The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics (2011)
Call Number: P94
Encyclopedia of Gender in Media (2012)
Call Number: P96
Encyclopedia of Media Violence (2013)
Call Number: P96
Violence in Popular Culture: American and Global Perspectives (2018)
Call Number: P96
Chronology: events
Manual of Romance Languages in the Media (2017)
Call Number: P96
Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language (2009)
Call Number: P107
Language Awareness and Multilingualism
Call Number: P115
Publication Date: 2017, 3rd ed
Manual of Language Acquisition (2014)
Call Number: P118
Romance languages
Encyclopedia of Language Development (2014)
Call Number: P118
Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquistiion (2013)
Call Number: P118.2
Second and Foreign Language Education
Call Number: P118.2
Publication Date: 2017
Language Typology and Language Universals (2008)
Call Number: P204
Volume 1
Volume 2
The Handy Communication Answer Book (2017)
Call Number: P211
Semantics: an international handbook of natural language meaning (2011)
Call Number: P325
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
An introduction to the languages of the world (2017)
Call Number: P371
The languages of the world (2002)
Call Number: P371
Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics (2016-2018)
Call Number: P575
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3

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