Language in Society

Title Publication Date Language Citations
Aidan Coveney, Variability in spoken French: A sociolinguistic study of interrogation and negation. Exeter, UK: Elm Bank, 1996. Pp. 271. Pb £24.99.1999/01/01
Robert E. MacLaury, Color and cognition in Mesoamerica: Constructing categories as vantages. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. Pp. xxviii, 616. Hb $85.00.1999/07/01English
Christina Bratt Paulston & G. Richard Tucker (eds.), The early days of sociolinguistics: Memories and reflections. (Publications in sociolinguistics, 2.) Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1997. Pp. xii, 362.2000/07/01English
William Downes, Language and society. 2nd edn. (Cambridge approaches to linguistics.) Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 503. Hb $64.95, pb $24.95. Ronald Wardhaugh, An introduction to sociolinguistics. 3rd edn. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. Pp. viii, 404.2000/04/01English
MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN & GREG URBAN (eds.), Natural histories of discourse. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 352.1998/10/01English
Walt Wolfram & Natalie Schilling-Estes, Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The story of the Ocracoke Brogue. Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xiv, 165. Hb $29.95, pb $14.95.1999/01/01
Jennifer Dickinson, James Herron, Laura Kunreuther, Mandana Limbert, Ellen Moodie, & Penelope Papailias (eds.), Linguistic form and social action. (Michigan discussions in anthropology, 13.) Ann Arbor: Anthropology Dept., University of Michigan, 1998. Pp. 283.2000/10/01English
Elizabeth Lanza, Language mixing in bilingual children. (Oxford studies in language contact.) Oxford: Clarendon; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 397. Hb $90.00.2000/07/01English
Srikant Sarangi & Celia Roberts (eds.), Talk, work and institutional order: Discourse in medical, mediation, and management settings. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (Language, Power and Social Process Series), 1999. Pp. 530. Pb 24.00.2001/04/01English
PETER BURKE AND ROY PORTER (eds.), Languages and jargons: Contributions to a social history of language. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995. Pp. vii, 216. [Distrib. in the US by Blackwell; hb $24.95.]1998/04/01English
HUBISI NWENMELY, Language reclamation: French Creole teaching in the UK and the Caribbean. (Multilingual matters, 106.) London (UK) & Philadelphia (PA): Multilingual Matters, 1996. Pp. vi, 138.1998/06/01English
WILLIAM F. HANKS, Language and communicative practices. (Critical essays in anthropology.) Oxford (UK) & Boulder (CO): Westview, 1996. Pp. xv, 335. Hb £40.95, pb £13.50.1998/04/01English
Marlis Hellinger & Ulrich Ammon (eds.), Contrastive sociolinguistics. (Contributions to the sociology of language, 71.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996. Pp. 504. Hb DM 228.00.1999/01/01
MICHAEL L. GEIS, Speech acts and conversational interaction: Toward a theory of conversational competence. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 248.1998/01/01English
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen & Margret Selting (eds.), Prosody in conversation: Interactional studies. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 471. Hb $74.95.1999/01/01
KARIN AIJMER, Conversational routines in English: Convention and creativity. London & New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1996. Pp. xvi, 251. Hb £40.00, pb £16.99.1998/06/01English
Albert Valdman (ed.), French and creole in Louisiana. (Topics in language and linguistics.) New York & London: Plenum, 1997. Pp. xiii, 372.2000/01/01English
John Edwards (ed.), Language in Canada. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 504.2000/04/01English
Kay McCormick & R. Mestrie (eds.), Post-Apartheid South Africa. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 136. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999.2001/04/01English
Communities of practice and pregnant women: Is there a connection?1999/04/01English
Triadic directives in Navajo language socialization2001/04/01English
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED2000/01/01English
LAURA R. GRAHAM, Performing dreams: Discourses of immortality among the Xavante of central Brazil. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 290. Hb $35.00.1998/06/01English
Frederic G. Cassidy (chief editor), Dictionary of American Regional English, volume III: I–O. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 927.1999/07/01English
Elinor Ochs, Emanuel A. Schegloff & Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), Interaction and grammar. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 468. Pb. $29.95.2000/07/01English
Frans Hinskens, Roeland van Hout, & W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), Variation, change and phonological theory. (Current issues in linguistic theory, 146.) Amsterdam: Benjamins. Pp. x, 314. Hb NLG 150.00, $75.00.2000/07/01English
Raija Markkanen & Hartmut Schröder (eds.), Hedging and discourse: Approaches to the analysis of a pragmatic phenomenon in academic texts. (Research in text theory, 24). Berlin: de Gruyter, 1997. Pp. 280. Hb DM 188.00.1999/10/01
Dwight Atkinson, Scientific discourse in sociohistorical context: The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1675–1975. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1999. Pp. xxxi, 208.2000/07/01English
Inviting collaborations in stories about a woman2000/07/01English
Andrée Tabouret-Keller, Robert B. Le Page, Penelope Gardner-Chloros, & Gabrielle Varro (eds.), Vernacular literacy: A re-evaluation. By members of the International Group for the Study of Language Standardization and the Vernacularization of Literacy (IGLSVL). (Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics, 13). Oxford: Clarendon; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 367.1999/10/01