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This guide covers a set of high-quality sources of information for English language and culture. This is the starting point for your research.
Bibliographies on English language and literature
- Drama Online - RSC Live Collection This link opens in a new windowFeatures 26 videos of Shakespeare's plays performed live by the Royal Shakespeare Company
- Linguistic Bibliography Online This link opens in a new windowBibliography for linguistics focusing on the lesser known and extinct languages
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) This link opens in a new windowBibliography containing references and abstracts on language and linguistics
- MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) This link opens in a new windowOnline bibliography on language and literature
- Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new windowDeveloped cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides
- Oxford Scholarly Editions OnlineAuthoritative poetry, drama and fiction texts from Classical Antiquity and all periods of English literature
- The Year's Work in English Studies This link opens in a new windowNarrative bibliographical review of scholarly work on English language and literature
General bibliographies
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
- Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
- Web of Science (incl. Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)) This link opens in a new window
Reference works
- Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics This link opens in a new windowThe prime online encyclopedia on language and language behavior
- Ethnologue : Languages of the world This link opens in a new windowResource on the more than 7100 languages spoken in the world.
- Literary Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
- Middle English Compendium This link opens in a new window
- Oxford Reference This link opens in a new windowDictionaries and introductory reference works in all fields (extended edition)
- Sage eReference This link opens in a new window
Dictionaries
- Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED) This link opens in a new windowHistorical dictionary of the English language
- Van Dale Dictionaries This link opens in a new windowBilingual dictionaries from and into Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish, and the 'Dikke Van Dale' (Dutch dictionary).
Online dictionaries of Van Dale can also be accessed via smartphone or tablet, by means of the Van Dale App! Once the app has been downloaded, you can open the app and click on the Surfspot link on the bottom of the log in screen to log in with your UG account.
The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by
Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term's use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term's origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning - it's rude, it's delightful, and it's a prize for anyone with a love of language.
ISBN: 9781315672229Publication Date: 2015-06-26
Handbooks
Collections e-journals
- Cambridge journals online This link opens in a new window
- DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) This link opens in a new window
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
- Oxford University Press journals This link opens in a new window
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
- Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window
- Taylor and Francis Journals This link opens in a new window
Journals in the field of English literature held at the RUG
Book Reviews
- New York Review of Books This link opens in a new windowFull text from volume I issue I (February 1963)
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