Linguistics and Translation
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Top Databases
- Communication and Mass Media Complete
- good for any topics on communication issues
- EBSCO
- covers lots of subject areas so often good for a quick starting point
- Linguistics And Language Behavior Abstracts
- the best place to find detailed articles and chapters for linguistics, language teaching and translation
- MLA International Bibliography
- Translation Studies Abstracts
Top Journals
- Applied Linguistics
- Babel
- Bilingualism
- Discourse and Society
- Discourse Studies
- ELT Journal
- English Language and Linguistics
- Language in Society
- Language Learning
- Language Learning Journal
- Language Teaching
- Meta
- Second Language Research
- Studies in Second Language Acquisition
- System
- Target
- The Translator
- Translation Studies
- TTR : traduction, terminologie, rédaction
Dictionaries & Encylopaedias
- Oxford English Dictionary Online
- Credo Reference
- a high quality alternative to Wikipedia which even shows you how to reference items found
- InterActive Terminology for Europe
- the EU’s multilingual term base
- Lexicool.com
- bilingual and multilingual dictionaries
- NATO Dictionary of Military Terminology (PDF file)
- United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database (in 6 languages)
- WordReference.com
- Online Language Dictionaries
- YourDictionary.com
- English and Multilingual dictionaries
Websites & Sources of Data
- Chartered Institute of Linguists
- a key professional body
- Corpus of Historical American English
- Search 400 million words to see how frequency of use and meaning has changed
- Foreignword.com
- Index Translationum
- an international listing of translations from UNESCO
- Institute of Translation and Interpreting
- UK professional body
- The Translator’s Home Companion
- Directory of UK ELT Research 05-08
Theses / Dissertations
Newspapers
- Nexis UK
- regional and national newspapers from the UK, Europe, the USA and Australasia, dating from the 1980s onwards
- The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
Meet the Subject Team
Anne Worden
Faculty Librarian
anne.worden@port.ac.uk
(023) 9284 3243
Sharon Bittner
Assistant Faculty Librarian
sharon.bittner@port.ac.uk
(023) 9284 3243
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Where is my Subject in the Library?
- All classification numbers in the 400s on the Second Floor in the University Library deal with different aspects of Language but you will also find some relevant books in the 300s on the First Floor. Specific numbers of interest include:
- Discourse 401.41
- English Language 420
- English Grammar 428.2…
- Language Policy 306.449
- Language Teaching 418.0071, 407.1
- Linguistics 410
- Sociolinguistics 306.44
- Teaching English 420.71, 428.0071, 428.24071
- Translation 418.02
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