ANTH 217 Culture and Communication

While the default library search engine, Summon, will allow you to find a great deal of articles, UBC subscribes to a number of specific databases that can help you focus your search.

• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) : Covers all aspects of the study of language and various fields of linguistics, including anthropological linguistics.
• AnthropologyPlus : A comprehensive index of citation covering the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research.
  Covers all core periodical and lesser-known journals from the early 19th century to today.
• Communication & Mass Media Complete 
• Google Scholar

If you're looking for articles on a topic, searching a database is a good way way to go as the they will list journal articles on your topic from a wide range of scholarly journals. However, you may also want to browse individual journals in linguistics anthropology to get an idea of recent research in the field. Below are the key journals which focus specifically on linguistic anthropology:

• Journal of linguistic anthropology (flagship journal published by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology)
• Anthropological linguistics

Many articles by linguistic anthropologists are published in interdisciplinary journals. Some examples include:

• Discourse and Society
• Narrative Inquiry
• Language and Communication
• Language in Society
• Pragmatics
• Oral Tradition
• Research on Language and Social Interaction