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Linguistics & Language Acquisition: Books

Research guide for linguistics, second language issues, and more.

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Book Search Tips

Think of keywords, or important words describing each aspect of your topic, such as:

"discourse analysis" gender

ESL writing instruction

The catalog includes both printed books and ebooks. Note the floor location, call number, and status in order to retrieve a printed book..

Get quick delivery of any physical book owned by another CSU library by requesting it through OneSearch.

You can widen your search beyond the CSU libraries by choosing the option Expanded Search.

Library Catalog: Subject Headings

When you find an interesting book, look at its Subjects (also known as Subject Headings). Click on a subject to find more book on that topic, or use them as keywords in your search. 

Examples:

Discourse analysis 
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers 
English language -- syntax 
Grammar, comparative and general 
Language acquisition 
Pragmatics 
Second language acquisition 
Sociolinguistics 

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