New E-Resources at Northwestern

Lexicons of Early Modern English

Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) is a historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods. Texts of word-entries whose headword (source) or explanation (target) language is English tell us what speakers of English thought about their tongue in the period served by the Short-title and Wing catalogues, from the advent of printing to about 1700. – Publisher’s blurb.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Rhetoric

The Encyclopedia of Rhetoric is a comprehensive survey of one of the Western world’s oldest disciplines. Its 150 entries, written by leading scholars, bring together expertise in classical studies, philosophy, literature, literary theory, cultural studies, speech, and communications in a comprehensive treatment of the art of persuasion. The Encyclopedia is the most wide-ranging reference work of its kind, combining theory, history, and practice, with a special emphasis on public speaking, performance, and communication. – Publisher’s blurb.

Profession (Modern Language Association)

Profession is a journal of opinion about and for the modern language profession. The editor selects articles covering a range of topics of professional concern, trying to give a voice to MLA members working in diverse subject areas and situations. – Publisher’s blurb.

Word and Image

Word & Image concerns itself with the study of the encounters, dialogues and mutual collaboration (or hostility) between verbal and visual languages, one of the prime areas of humanistic criticism. Word & Image provides a forum for articles that focus exclusively on this special study of the relations between words and images. Themed issues are considered occasionally on their merits. – Publisher’s blurb.

Phonetica

Northwestern University Library has purchased backfile content of v.55 (1998) to the present for the journal Phonetica.

Phonetica is an international and interdisciplinary forum that covers all aspects of the subject matter, from the phonetic and phonological descriptions of sounds and prosodies to the measuring domains of speech physiology, articulation, acoustics, and perception. – Publisher’s blurb.

Access to this resource is restricted to the Northwestern University Evanston campus.

Foreign Language Annals

Dedicated to the advancement of language teaching and learning, Foreign Language Annals seeks to serve the professional interests of classroom instructors, researchers, and administrators concerned with the learning and teaching of languages at all levels of instruction. – Publisher’s blurb.

Phonetica : an interdisciplinary forum for spoken language research

Research into spoken language has become increasingly accessible to instrumental analysis and experimental verification. They are the underpinning of Phonetic Science for the investigation of speech in communicative settings across the world’s languages. Reflecting this communicative Phonetic Science, ‘Phonetica’ is an international and interdisciplinary forum that covers all aspects of the subject matter, from the phonetic and phonological descriptions of sounds and prosodies to the measuring domains of speech physiology, articulation, acoustics, and perception. – Publisher’s blurb.

Access to this resource is restricted to the Northwestern University Evanston campus.

Bibliography of Linguistic Literature

BLLDB is the online version of the “Bibliography of Linguistic Literature / Bibliographie Linguistischer Literatur (BLL)”. It is one of the major sources of information on the internet for general linguistics with all its neighbouring disciplines and subdomains as well as English, German and Romance linguistics. Other languages are also covered to a smaller extent. The bibliography lists journal articles, articles of conference proceedings, and other collective works as well as monographs, dissertations, and Festschrifts.

BLLDB contains all volumes of the printed edition of BLL. It dates back as far as 1971 and references over 360,000 citations. The data base is updated quarterly with an annual growth of about 10,000 citations. The material covered is international. Subject classification is available in English and German. – Publisher’s blurb.

IPA Source

IPA Source is the web’s largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Now with over 3775 texts including 550 opera-aria texts.   The goal of IPA Source is to promote the comprehension and accurate pronunciation of foreign language texts in art song and opera in order that the singer may imbue each syllable with the appropriate emotional content. Translations into English from multiple languages.

(Access restricted to the Evanston campus)

Glotta : Zeitschrift fur Griechische und Lateinische Sprache

Glotta veröffentlicht schwerpunktmäßig sprachgeschichtliche, strukturelle und etymologische Untersuchungen.

The journal Glotta publishes language, historical, structural and etymological investigations.