Humanities & Social Sciences Library

Interested in feministic perspectives on film, television, and visual media? Researching on the analyses of the cultural politics of globalization?

You would love to know that the library now has access to most recent issues of the two most read journals published by Duke University Press!

Click ‘Connect’ and select “Duke University Press” to access the Journal via NTU Library A to Z E-Journal List.

Camera Obscura
This journal provides spotlight to emerging feministic writers in the field of visual media in relation to race studies, postcolonial studies and queer studies. The library now has the complete access to all the issues since year 2000.

Public Culture
This jounal is a three-time CELJ award-winning journal that provides a forum for cultural studies, popular cultures and globalization. The publisher say, “Providing a forum for the internationalization of cultural studies, Public Culture essays have mapped the capital, human, and media flows drawing cities, peoples, and states into transnational relationships and political economies.”

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Now available online!
Journal of Linguistics – Volume 45 – Issue 01 – March 2009
Cambridge University Press

Here are some of the articles featured:

Indeterminacy by underspecification
MARY DALRYMPLE
TRACY HOLLOWAY KING
LOUISA SADLER
Journal of Linguistics, Volume 45, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 31 – 68

Copy Control in Telugu
YOUSSEF A. HADDAD
Journal of Linguistics, Volume 45, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 69 – 109

The role of psychoacoustic similarity in Japanese puns: A corpus study
SHIGETO KAWAHARA
KAZUKO SHINOHARA
Journal of Linguistics, Volume 45, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 111 – 138

Phrase structure vs. dependency: The analysis of Welsh syntactic soft mutation
MAGGIE TALLERMAN
Journal of Linguistics, Volume 45, Issue 01, March 2009, pp 167 – 201
Full text access is available via the the Library’s A–Z ejournal title list.  You can also subscribe for alerts from the ejournal main page.

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Calling all word lovers, you can now access Collins Wordbanks Online from any of the common PCs located in the Library!

Collins Wordbanks Online contains 57 million words of written and spoken English from both American and British sources. Language data is derived from the Bank of English — the Collins corpora of modern written and spoken text.

With Wordbanks, you can:
–view language samples as they are used in real life
–carry out linguistic research for your thesis
–analyze the semantics behind the usage of a particular word

More information can be found on our databases page or on the information page for Collins Wordbanks Online.

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