Search Tips
You can search for books about linguistics in the library catalog in several ways:
1. Keyword Searching
Use words that describe your topic, for example:
2. Subject searching
If you know the Library of Congress subject heading used to describe your area of research, you can search for a particular subject. Some examples are:
- animal communication for books and other materials about teaching language to animals
- bilingualism
- language acquisition
- language and languages -- sex differences, sexism in language, women -- language, nonsexist language are all good for books and other materials about language and gender
- language, artificial
- phonology
- second language acquisition
Q: What's the difference between a keyword search and a subject search?
A: Compare the results of a keyword search on artificial languages with a subject search on artificial languages.
3. Browsing
The range of topics covered by linguistics is huge, however most books can be found on Tisch Level 1. See the Library of Congress call numbers for linguistics and language for an idea of specific areas to browse.
No matter how you search you'll find an amazing array of books like Language and the African American Child, Historical Outlines of English Sounds and Inflections and How to Do Accents, among hundreds of others.
