Linguistics - General and Applied
Books
This eighth edition continues to be an essential introduction to the study of human language. It provides an overview of the key areas of linguistics from an Australian perspective, and has been extensively updated and revised to reflect recent discoveries and new understandings in linguistics and language. This classic text is suitable for students in fields as diverse as linguistics, computer science, English, communication studies, anthropology, foreign language teaching and speech pathology.
A textbook, written for introductory courses in linguistic theory for undergraduate linguistics majors and first-year graduate students, by twelve major figures in the field. Covers morphology, syntax, semantics,phonetics, phonology, and language acquisition. Discusses the underlying principles common to all languages, and shows how these are revealed in language acquisition and in the specific grammars of the world's languages.
This popular introduction to the subject of language is succinct, clear, accurate and fun to read. Suitable for beginning students of linguistics, language education and anthropology. Written by more than 60 experts from around the world, the conversational style reflects its origin as a series of five-minute radio broadcasts.
Databases
Coverage: 1806 to present (Index)
Contains citations in the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
An online directory of academic, peer-reviewed, open access books. Search by keyword or browse by subject.
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DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals, covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.
Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text)
Access to archival issues of journals with coverage usually ending three to five years before present. Back issues of over 1500 journals in the arts, humanities, science, and social sciences with links to current issues available in Project Muse.
OLAC is an international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources. Includes details of text collections, audio recordings, dictionaries, and software, sourced from dozens of digital and traditional archives.
Coverage: Coverage varies (Full text)
Includes over 380 journals from over 70 scholarly publishers covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
Coverage: Index
Te Puna Search (WorldCat Discovery) provides a view of New Zealand libraries’ holdings and the holdings of other libraries around the world for both library staff and patrons. Discovery searches over OCLC WorldCat plus other databases.
Coverage: 1785 - 2014
The complete digital edition of the Times (London) is a primary source for researchers of world history, politics, and literature. Contains articles and letters to the editor from famous writers. The entire newspaper has been captured and is searchable, including all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photographs.
Coverage: Index
WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. Search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.
Dictionaries
An authoritative and up-to-date source of information about the English language. With contributions from more than 130 experts worldwide, the language is viewed from an international perspective, covering Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to South Asian English.
The essential guide to the languages of the world, comprehensively detailing more than 400 languages in a clear A-Z style.
This revised and updated fifth edition incorporates new words or senses that have developed in linguistics during the past 5 years, based on recommendations from a team of experts.
The unabridged content of the highly regarded 1989 Iðunn Íslensk-ensk orðabók (Concise Icelandic-English Dictionary), updated and expanded by one of the original editors, and incorporating the rich set of morphological data developed by Dictionary of the University of Iceland.
A pronouncing and translating dictionary of modern Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk) with a historical and grammatical introduction
The OED is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words, both past and present, from across the English-speaking world.
Encyclopedias
A comprehensive and authoritative source of information about any particular aspect of linguistics or its applications.
Fully revised and updated, the second edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, first published in 2001, offers a source of social and behavioral sciences reference material that is broader and deeper than any other. Comprises over 3,900 articles, commissioned by 71 Section Editors, and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.
Journals
A professional journal for teachers of English to speakers of other languages. Comprises peer-reviewed articles from TESOL practitioners and academics as well as a section on classroom practice and reviews of TESOL resources.
This journal publishes existing peer-reviewed and published research, reviews, poems, short stories, and essays that have been translated to a Pacific language. This provides an ethical and culturally appropriate means of reporting back to research communities and participants, Pacific stakeholders, researchers, students, consultation groups, and policy makers in their native tongue.
International Journal of English for Academic Purposes: Research and Practice is a peer-reviewed platform for the open access publication of research and practice in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) teaching and learning. The aim of the journal is to publish on both practice and research in the field of EAP. It is a peer-reviewed international journal with a global editorial board of experts.
International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL) is devoted to problems of general and applied linguistics in their various forms, IRAL's covers research concerning first- and second-language acquisition (including sign language and gestural systems). Topics include naturalistic and instructed language learning, language loss, bilingualism, language contact, pidgins and creoles, language for specific purposes, language technology, mother-tongue education, terminology and translation, applied linguistics, first language acquisition, language teaching and learning , linguistics and semiotics, and theoretical frameworks and disciplines.
Provides articles, research papers, lessons plans, and classroom handouts and links for ESL/EFL teachers.
A multi-disciplinary academic journal which provides a forum for trans-disciplinary discussion across boundaries - disciplinary, geographic, cultural, social or economic. Each issue is organised as a site of encounter around a one word theme. Focusing on New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific, Junctures seeks to address the matters which concern us all as we negotiate the contemporary environment. Double-blind peer reviewed by an international editorial team. Themes include water, oceans, genetics, space, peace, language, movement, body, play, control, Indigenisation.
An annual refereed publication which aims to bring research on the varieties of English spoken in New Zealand to a wider audience. As well as articles describing facets of New Zealand varieties of English, it presents research reports, bibliographical lists, summaries of other discussions relevant to its subject matter.
Coverage: Full text available up until the most recent two years, table of contents available for all years.
Semi-annual multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal containing academic research articles, book reviews, essays and short stories. Topics include economic development, business, government and politics, religion, culture, music, and media. Contributors are from New Zealand and abroad. Published by the New Zealand Asian Studies Society (NZASIA), the main professional organisation of tertiary Asian Studies scholars in New Zealand.
An interdisciplinary journal for innovative research and scholarship that contests the objectification, pathologisation, and exoticisation of transgender lives. It explores the diversity of gender, sex, sexuality, embodiment, and identity in ways that have not been adequately addressed by feminist and queer scholarship. Examines how “transgender” comes into play as a category, a process, a social assemblage, an increasingly intelligible gender identity, an identifiable threat to gender normativity, and a rubric for understanding the variability and contingency of gender across time, space, and cultures. Major topics addressed in the first few issues include the cultural production of trans communities, critical analysis of transgender population studies, transgender biopolitics, radical critiques of political economy, and problems of translating gender concepts and practices across linguistic communities.
Websites
A reference for making informed decisions in every language context worldwide.
The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF) has provided reference lists for researchers and teachers throughout the world. These lists are created by members of the English Language Research Community.
Language Science Press publishes high quality, peer-reviewed open-access online books in linguistics. All publications are free for both authors and readers. General Editors are Stefan Müller (FU Berlin) and Martin Haspelmath (MPI for the Science of Human History). They are supported by a high-profile Advisory Board.
Searchable database of linguistic terminology updated with new terms in the areas of Generative Grammar (Minimalism) and Phonetics. Includes bibliography. Provided by the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics at the Utrecht University.
An annual volume of articles by Postgraduate Diploma in Second Language Teaching students and MA Applied Linguistics students in the Department of General and Applied Linguistics at the University of Waikato; also included are articles by students in the undergraduate papers Introduction to Applied Linguistics and An Introduction to Skills-Based Second Language Teaching and Learning.
Data and the texts on the structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages from the World Atlas of Language Structures, published in 2005 by Oxford University Press.