Contains references to language and literature commentary in books, book collections and articles from over 4,400 journals; more than 66,000 records in over 60 languages are currently added each year. The index also includes dictionaries, catalogs, handbooks, bibliographies, indexes, other reference works, published working papers, conference papers, conference proceedings, citations of dissertations from Dissertations Abstracts International, handbooks, anthologies for teaching, syllabi, textbooks, and curriculum guides. Subject coverage includes:

• Literature: from all over the world, including Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America
• Folklore: folk literature, music, art, rituals, and belief systems
• Language and linguistics: the study of languages from any historical period, including history and theory of linguistics, comparative linguistics, semantics, stylistics, syntax and translation
• Literary theory and criticism
• Dramatic arts: film, radio, television and theatre
• History of printing and publishing
• Teaching of language, literature, rhetoric and composition at college level (from 1998 onwards)

In addition to the contents of the annual volumes (which record scholarship from around 1960 onwards), the electronic version of the bibliography also includes subject-indexed records for the entire runs of journals from JSTOR's Language and Literature collection. This comprises over 50,000 records, including material from journals from as far back as the 1880s. Connect to JSTOR or the E-Journals Database to access the full-text of those articles.
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