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For Library research help, please contact Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Sociology / Anthropology by email (moninder_lalli@sfu.ca) or Ask a librarian.
Essay
Start Your Research Here - This page gives you an overview of the research process, or in other words how to find materials for your essay
Selected encyclopedias and handbooks
Get an overview of a topic by using encyclopedias, handbooks or textbook. These types of resources identify key authors, theories and important resources on a topic.
- Cambridge handbook of linguistic anthropology
- The international encyclopedia of linguistic anthropology (2021)
- International encyclopedia of linguistics - Historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional linguistics and sociolinguistics
- Oxford handbook of language evolution
- Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
- Routledge handbook of critical discourse studies
- Routledge handbook of language and emotion
- Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology
For more, see reference works in linguistics
Find journal articles
Searching the "Databases for a discipline" is a great strategy to view articles that have been written within the scholarly journals of that discipline. For help, refer to the How to find journal articles, What is a scholarly journal? [guide], Finding articles: Advanced search techniques [video 3:13 mins]
If full-text of article is not available from within the database, click on the "Get@SFU" to start a search. If the Library does not provide access, then use the Citation Finder/ILL tab to request a copy from another library (free) through SFU Library's Inter-Library Loans (ILL) service.
Anthropological databases
- Anthropology Plus - Indexes material relating to anthropology
- AnthroSource
- Full-text access to journals published by the American Anthropological Association (AAA Journal list)
Sociological databases
- ProQuest Sociology Collection - for issues related to class, gender, racism, sexuality and sexism and theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science. Also searches Sociological Abstracts.
- Sociological Abstracts - theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science.
- Social Sciences Full Text - social sciences journals
Databases for linguistics
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) -- The most inclusive database for research in all aspects of Linguistics
- ERIC -- Education research and practice, first and additional language acquisition, computer-aided language learning
- PsycINFO -- Citations to literature in the field of psychology, psycholinguistics, bilingualism and language acquisition
For a more complete list, try Databases for linguistics
Find books
Library Catalogue search guide
Search the SFU Library Catalogue: Advanced keyword
- linguist* AND anthropol*
- linguist* AND (anthropo* OR ethnogra* OR ethnolog*) AND theor*
- "critical discourse analysis" AND (anthropo* OR ethnogra* OR ethnolog*) AND language AND(power OR ideology OR identity OR institutions OR "social values")
- linguist* AND (war OR propaganda OR national*)
- linguist* AND (politic* OR power*) AND (anthropol* OR ethn*)
Combine different concepts using AND
Combine same concepts using OR
Use quotation marks to search for a phrase
Use brackets for synonyms
Use asterisk (*) for different endings of words
Use pull-down menu and select, "Source Types" as "Books"
Note: For Catalogue Search, when combining concepts, use CAPITAL letters ( "OR", "AND")
When you find a useful book, click on its "subject" to find more books on the same topic.
Selected books
- A new companion to linguistic anthropology
- Alarming reports: communicating conflict in the daily news (Anthropology of media)
- Approaches to language and culture
- Digital anthropology [print]
- Essays in linguistic ethnography : ethics, aesthetics, encounters [print]
- Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts : Truth, Love, Hate and War
- Language and ethnicity
- Language and ethnonationalism in contemporary West Central Balkans : a corpus-based approach
- Language and globalization : an autoethnographic approach
- Language and materiality : ethnographic and theoretical explorations
- Language diversity in the USA
- Language, Vernacular Discourse and Nationalisms: Uncovering the Myths of Transnational Worlds
- Linguistic relativity today : language, mind, society, and the foundations of linguistic anthropology
- Linguistic worldview ethnolinguistics, cognition, and culture
- Living language : an introduction to linguistic anthropology
- Looking like a language, sounding like a race : raciolinguistic ideologies and the learning of Latinidad
- Narratives of conflict, belonging, and the state : discourse and social life in post-war Ireland
- Native bias : overcoming discrimination against immigrants
- Politics of multilingualism Europeanisation, globalisation and linguistic governance
Browse by subject
You can also "browse by subject" to find books about a topic.
Change "Title" to "Subject" and enter "subject" terms
- Anthropo-linguistics
- Ethnolinguistics
- Linguistic anthropology
- Linguistic anthropology -- [geographic area}
- Mass media and anthropology
- Sociolinguistics
- Sociolinguistics -- [geographic area]
- Sociolinguistics -- United States
Library guides
- Annotated bibliographies
- Evaluating sources
- How to find journal articles.
- Library Catalogue search guide.
- What is a scholarly (or peer-reviewed) journal?
- What is plagiarism? Guide to common forms of plagiarism and how to avoid them.
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