It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older. This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results.
Sociolinguistics
Subject Guide
Getting Started
The reference collection is a great place to begin your research. These short relevant articles will give the basic understanding you need to formulate a good research question.
Search the Reference Collection:
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
-
Ethnologue: Languages of the World"...contains information on 7,102 known living languages."
-
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics by Call Number: REF P 29 E48 2006 (14 vols.)ISBN: 0080442994Publication Date: 200514 volumes. The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field. -
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by Call Number: REF P 29 C64 1997ISBN: 0521550505Publication Date: 1997Answers many questions about language such as where language came from, how many languages there are, and how we acquire a first language or learn a second one. From mystical letters to trucker talk, this book presents the variety, structure, history and theory of language in all its diversity.
Copyright