Language and Community
This Web page gives recommendations of resources to use and the terms to search in them for topics related to language and community (e.g. how language may vary from community to community, how language determines a community, etc.). Language Research Topics has links to pages with suggestions for other language topics.
Search Academic Search Premier using:
- language community
- language policy
- speech communities
- dialectology
Be certain to combine terms in the databases below to find more precisely what you need. Also, you don't want to be searching through large sets of search results. See Advanced Searching Tips for suggestions.
Search PsycINFO using:
- Language
- Communities
Search Linguistics " Language Behavior Abstracts using:
- language socialization
Search MLA Bibliography using:
- sociolinguistics
- language-interaction
- language-policy
- language
- bilingualism
- minority language
- speech-community
- social-dialects
Search ERIC using:
- community involvement
- English-second-language
- parents
- community education
- second language learning
- second language instruction
Be sure to evaluate the sources you find. Use How to Evaluate Books and How to Evaluate Articles for suggestions of things to examine.
Note: CSU no longer subscribes to the indexes listed below, but the terms should work if your library has them:
Search Black Studies using:
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Search Electric Library using:
- community language
- speech community
- black english and communities and language
- people speaking and dialect