{"id":4458,"date":"2020-11-06T14:28:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T14:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/?p=4458"},"modified":"2021-09-02T21:13:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T20:13:41","slug":"resource-in-focus-linguistics-and-language-behavior-abstracts-llba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/resource-in-focus-linguistics-and-language-behavior-abstracts-llba\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource in Focus: Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libsearch.ncl.ac.uk\/permalink\/f\/1jraif3\/NCL_ALMA61112725180002411\">Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts<\/a> (LLBA) indexes and provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertations on linguistics and language sciences including topics such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Anthropological linguistics<\/li><li>Applied linguistics<\/li><li>Descriptive linguistics<\/li><li>Discourse analysis<\/li><li>Language &#8211; pathological and normal<\/li><li>Learning disabilities<\/li><li>Nonverbal communication<\/li><li>Phonetics<\/li><li>Phonology<\/li><li>Psycholinguistics<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s an excellent resource for those interested in the nature and use of language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"228\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/10\/LLBA-1024x228.png\" alt=\"Screen shot of the LLBA search box.\" class=\"wp-image-4459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/10\/LLBA-1024x228.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/10\/LLBA-300x67.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/10\/LLBA-768x171.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/10\/LLBA.png 1412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The database provides both basic and advanced search options and you can limit your results by information (source) type, publication date, subject, language and more.&nbsp; You can also limit to peer reviewed items only.&nbsp; While some full text items are available, LLBA item records generally provide only bibliographic information and an abstract, so look out for the \u2018Find@Newcastle\u2019 button in your results page, which will help you check for a full text copy of an item in Library Search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LLBA has the advantage of including a specialised linguistics thesaurus, which you can use in advanced search to refine and focus your search. The thesaurus provides a searchable list of all the subject terms used in the database and highlights links between broader, narrower and related terms, helping you to select all of the keywords relevant to your topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"482\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/10\/LLBA-thesaurus-1024x482.png\" alt=\"Screen shot showing the LLBA thesaurus and advanced search screen.\" class=\"wp-image-4460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/10\/LLBA-thesaurus-1024x482.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/10\/LLBA-thesaurus-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/10\/LLBA-thesaurus-768x362.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/10\/LLBA-thesaurus-1536x723.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2020\/10\/LLBA-thesaurus.png 1733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ProQuest provide a <a href=\"https:\/\/proquest.libguides.com\/llba\">helpful and detailed guide to LLBA<\/a> which includes search tips for basic and advanced search as well as some sample searches you can work through to familiarise yourself with the database.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) indexes and provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertations on linguistics and language sciences including topics such as: Anthropological linguistics Applied linguistics Descriptive linguistics Discourse analysis Language &#8211; pathological and normal Learning disabilities Nonverbal communication Phonetics Phonology Psycholinguistics It\u2019s an excellent resource for those interested in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/resource-in-focus-linguistics-and-language-behavior-abstracts-llba\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Resource in Focus: Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8034,"featured_media":4499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,120],"tags":[25,27,28,29,23,16,17,20,19,35,24],"class_list":["post-4458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources","category-the-library","tag-linguistics","tag-combhon","tag-communication","tag-education","tag-english-language","tag-french","tag-german","tag-italian","tag-spanish-and-latin-american","tag-speech","tag-translating-and-interpreting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4458"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6001,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions\/6001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}