HONR 258X: Discourse and Pragmatics in Japanese and English
Professor Lindsay Yotsukura, Spring 2009
Web page created by Timothy Hackman, UM Libraries
This guide will assist you in locating resources for Honors 258X. E-mail Tim Hackman, the subject area specialist, or call 301-314-8521 for more information.
For a complete list of electronic resources available to University of Maryland faculty, staff, and students, as well as information about the full range of library materials and services, consult Research Port and the UM Libraries' home page.
Contents
Getting Started
Finding Books
Finding Articles
Interlibrary Loan
Preparing Your Bibliography
Questions?
Getting Started
Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics.
McKeldin Reference P 99.4.P72C62 1998
The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics.
10 vol.
McKeldin Reference P 29.E48 1994
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Applied Linguistics.
McKeldin Reference P 129.E53 1998
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd ed.
McKeldin Reference P29 .I58 2003
Kokugo Nenkan.
East Asia Japanese Language Reference PL 501.K63, 1954-
The Libraries' East Asia Collection contains over 90,000 catalogued books, reference materials, and periodicals written in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. See the reference guide to the Japanese Collection.
Other Helpful Hints:
Japanese/English dictionaries use the call number PL 679 and can be found in McKeldin Reference, McKeldin Stacks, and the East Asia Japanese Reference collections.
Japanese dictionaries use the call number PL 675 and can be found in McKeldin Reference, McKeldin Stacks, and the East Asia Japanese Reference collections.
Chinese character Japanese dictionaries use the call number PL 677.5 and can be found in McKeldin Reference, McKeldin Stacks, and the East Asia Japanese Reference collections.
Books and journals about the Japanese language use call numbers in the range PL 501-699.
When using the databases below, be sure to follow the
Finding Books
Catalog
Resources available in the University System of Maryland Libraries. Include the phrase "japanese language" in your search to find books about Japanese. To find books in Japanese use the Advanced Search option.
WorldCat
This huge catalog will lead you to resources available in major libraries around the world. Books not owned by UM can be requested via Interlibrary Loan.
National Diet Library of Japan: Search the Diet Library catalogs.
Other Helpful Hints:
Try combinations of the following subject terms:
More specific: Conversation Analysis, Dialogue Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Etiquette, Forms of Address, Honorific.
Less specific: Intercultural Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Language and Culture, Politeness (Linguistics), Japanese Language -- Social Aspects, Speech Acts (Linguistics).
You may also find useful items by browsing books in the "Pragmatics and Beyond" series (published by John Benjamins). Use the "Advanced Search" feature in the Catalog to search by series title.
To search for Japanese publications in the UM Catalog use Romaji. The characters will display on any computer in the Library. For help with searching, see "Understanding the Modified Hepburn System" on the Japanese Collection Web page.
To search WorldCat in CJK characters, use the terminal near the reference desk in the East Asia Reading Room. These computers are only available when East Asia staff is on duty, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm.
Finding Articles
link. This will direct you to the available full text, the catalog, or Interlibrary Loan if full text is not available and if the Libraries do not subscribe to the journal or needed volume and issue.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
Other Useful Databases:
MLA International Bibliography
Indexes journals, books, essay collections, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies published worldwide in the areas of literary criticism, language, linguistics, rhetoric, and folklore of all countries.
SocIndex with FullText
Features more than 1.3 million records with subject headings from a sociology-specific thesaurus. Contains full text for 242 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 500+ books and monographs, and full text for more than 6,500 conference papers.
Bibliography of Asian Studies
References Western-language books, journal articles, and conference proceedings, including citations to all articles from the 100 most-used journals in Asian Studies.
Magazine Plus (In Japanese)
Most comprehensive online index to Japanese articles, includes "Zasshi Kiji Sakuin (1948- )," annual reports of academic institutions and research associations, festschriften, collections of scholarly papers, general magazines, business magazines, popular magazines, etc. from over 20,000 journals. Updated weekly.
Digital Dissertations
This database is the an authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities. Full text is available from 1997 to the present.
Individual Journals: You can also try browsing particular journal titles of interest, such as the ones listed below. (Links will open the menu, which will link you to both print holdings and (where available) electronic versions for these journals.)
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Interlibrary Loan
Material not held in our libraries can be requested through Interlibrary Loan.
Preparing Your Bibliography
APA:
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
Location: McKeldin Quick Reference Shelf
Call Number: BF 76.7.P83 2001
Citing Sources Using the APA Style Manual, UM Libraries
Citation Styles Handbook: APA, University of Illinois U-C
Questions?
If you have any questions about these or other library resources,
contact Tim Hackman.
