Contains more than 244,000 citations with abstracts to the world's published literature on the nature, use, and teaching of language as well as linguistics, speech, communication and related topics. Includes citations to book reviews appearing in serials abstracted for the print Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts . User's Guide Updated ten times per year. Indexes critical materials on literature, criticism, drama, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to citations from over 3,500 journals, series, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.
Coverage is international.
The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. User's Guide Updated monthly. Professional, academic, and psychology-related literature. Corresponds in part to the print index Psychological Abstracts . Social Sciences Abstracts , February ,1983 - present.