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Wellesley College Research Guides

LING 238: Sociolinguistics

Key Databases

Search for a topic across hundreds of different journals and other publications. Find more databases on our A-Z Databases list, where you can filter by Subject or Content type.

Search Tips

Use AND to combine multiple concepts in your search. This will narrow your results.

bilingualism AND identity

Use OR to find different ways your topic could be expressed. This will expand your results.

(bilingualism OR multilingualism) AND identity

Use an asterisk * to find variant endings, or as a wild card. This will expand your results

(bilingual* OR multilingual*AND wom*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")

Individual Journals

You can search across all of these journals and more in the Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts database (under Key Databases on this page).

Search the Library Catalog

Catalog Search Tips

Try a keyword search. Once you find a book or video that is relevant to your topic, click on the title, then look under Subject to help you find "more like this."

For example, a keyword search for

  • african american english

leads to linked Subject terms and more books and videos on related topics:

 

Some other useful catalog Subject terms for this course:

  • Sociolinguistics -- United States
  • Language and Languages -- Variation
  • English language -- Dialects -- United States
  • English language -- Social aspects -- United States