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Index to publications on literature, linguistics, film, and folklore, from all cultures, 1963 to present. International in scope, it includes citations to journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations.
Interdisciplinary subject searching of scholarly articles in the social sciences (1898-present) physical & life sciences (1899 to present), and arts & humanities (1975 to present). Search for articles that cite known journal articles or books.
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish), full text database of newspapers, magazines, and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses, 1960 to present.
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bilingualism AND identity
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(bilingualism OR multilingualism) AND identity
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(bilingual* OR multilingual*) AND wom*n AND identity
Use quotation marks " " to search words as a phrase. This will narrow your results.
"code switching" AND bilingual*
To find research on African American English, try a variety of terms.
("african american english" OR "african american language" OR "african american vernacular english" OR aave OR "black english")
You can search across all of these journals and more in the Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts database (under Key Databases on this page).