LING 1100.103: Language, Thought, and Reality: How to Build a Language (Spring 2009)  Tags: linguistics_language_literature  

You're reading an article and you spot a potentially useful reference. How do you find it?

• Look closely at the citation. It looks like this article appears ina journal called LPLP (?), in volume 11, issue 3.
• Open the Library Catalog and do a title search for LPLP. Do we have it?

Another reference (from the same article).

This is an essay or chapter within a book. The essay is "Interlinguistics: Its aims, its achievements, and its place in language science." The essay is published in a book titled: Interlinguistics: Aspects of the Science of Planned Languages, pages 7-44.  Do you see the word "In" after the title in quotation marks? That's the first clue.  The abbreviated editor (ed.) is another clue that this is an edited volume.

How about this one?

This is an article published in a journal. The article is "Virtual languages in science fiction and fantasy literature." The article appears in Language Matters, volume 37, issue number 1 on pages 102-117. Notic the title in italics, followed by 37(1). That's a clue that this is a journal.

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