Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture:RefE169.12 .E49 2001
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics: Ref P29 .E48 1994
The Guide toUnited StatesPopular Culture:RefE169.1 .D399 2001
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics: Ref PE29 .I58 2003
Selected Dictionaries:
OxfordEnglish Dictionary: Online and in print on the Ref Wall. This is the primary dictionary for the historical study of word meanings. Each entry begins with the term, followed by definitions, and each term has examples from printed sources, ranging as far back as could be traced.
Dictionary of American Regional English: RefPE2843 .D52 1985.
CambridgeDictionary of American English:RefPE1628 .C22 2000
What’s Up? A Guide to American Collegespeak: RefPE3727.S8 D78 2003
Historical Dictionary of American Slang: RefPE2846 .H57 1994
Finding Articles through the Library's Databases:
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA): The PRIMARY index for all aspects of linguistics, with articles, books and book chapters, dissertations and other resources indexed back to 1973.
Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLAIB) and Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL): Use both article indexes integrated within Literature Online by searching criticism and reference.
Communication Abstracts: Covers a wide range of journals related to communication and discourse.
Communication and Mass Media Complete: This database offers indexing and abstracting (with some full text) for many of the leading journals in communications.
PsycINFO: Includes a significant number of articles on language acquisition and discourse analysis
Finding Books: Search Tips and Subject Headings
Search Tips:
Boolean Operators: Use AND to narrow your search, OR to expand it, and NOT to exclude items.
Search a phrase by putting that phrase into "quotation marks."
Nest searches with parentheses: (feminism or feminist) and language.
Truncation/Wildcard Symbols:
The asterisk (*) normally finds any number of characters: child*-->child, children, childish, children's, childlike....
The question mark (?) normally replaces any single character: wom?n-->woman or women
Selected Subject Headings:
English language -- dialects -- (place)
English language -- history
English language -- obscene words
English language -- provincialisms
English language -- slang
English language -- socialization
English language -- United States -- history
English language -- variation
Americanisms -- (place)
If It's Not FullText: Find It!
How can I see articles?
Many of our databases include the full text of articles. In some cases, though, the full text of an article may not be available online in the database you are using due to publishers' restrictions or the prohibitive cost of providing them online. Increasingly, when you search for articles in the library's databases you will see the button on your results list or on the screen showing the citation/abstract of the article.
Serial Solutions is a service offered by Joyner and Laupus Libraries that allows you, at the click of a button, to go from an article citation in one database to a full text copy of that article in another, or to see if a particular article or specific journal is available in full text electronic format. It also allows you to find out if that journal is available in print at either Joyner or Laupus.
What if the article I want is not available full-text online?
If the article is not available online, you can check the Joyner Library catalog or the Laupus Health Sciences catalog to see if it is held in printed form. The button does this for you automatically from within databases. If you live within Pitt County you would need to come to the library to make a copy of the article. If you are a distance-learning studentliving outside of Pitt County, you can have articles copied and sent to you, using Interlibrary Lending.
Citation Linker: If you already have a citation from someone else’s bibliography and want to find out if we have that article, key it into the Citation Linker. When you click the Find IT! Button at the bottom of the page, you will generate an menu of options that works like the one described above.
