Language in Society

Title Publication Date Language Citations
LSY volume 53 issue 2 Cover and Front matter2024/04/01English
John Baugh, Out of the mouths of slaves: African American language and educational malpractice. Foreword by William Labov. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 190. Hb $25.00, pb $12.95.2001/01/01English
Lisa Philip Valentine & Regna Darnell (eds.), Theorizing the Americanist tradition. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp. 397. Hb $29.95.2001/04/01English
Mari C. Jones, Language obsolescence and revitalization: Linguistic change in two sociolinguistically contrasting Welsh communities. (Oxford studies in language contact.) Oxford: Clarendon; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 452.2000/04/01English
DELL HYMES, Ethnography, linguistics, narrative inequality: Toward an understanding of voice. (Critical perspectives on literacy and education.) London (UK) & Bristol (PA): Taylor & Francis, 1996. Pp. xiv, 258. Pb £14.95, $24.95.1998/04/01English
R. E. Asher & T. C. Kumari, Malayalam. (Descriptive grammars.) London & New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. xxvi, 491.1999/07/01English
WERNER NOTHDURFT (ed.), Schlichtung, Band 1: Streit schlichten – Gesprächsanalytische Untersuchungen zu institutionellen Formen konsensueller Konfliktregelung [Mediation, vol. 1: Mediating disputes – Conversation-analytic research on institutional forms of consensual resolution of disputes]. (Schriften des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache, 5.) Berlin: de Gruyter, 1995. Pp. viii, 431. Hb DM 206.00.1998/06/01English
Gender and pronominal variation in an Indo-Guyanese creole-speaking community1999/07/01English
David L. Shaul & N. Louanna Furbee, Language and culture. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland, 1998. Pp. xiv, 303. Pb $13.95.1999/10/01
KOENRAAD KUIPER, Smooth talkers: The linguistic performance of auctioneers and sportscasters. (Everyday communication: Case studies of behavior in context.) Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1996. Pp. xiv, 110. Hb $29.95, pb $16.50.1998/06/01English
LOUIS-JACQUES DORAIS, La parole inuit: Langue, culture et société dans l'Arctique nord-américain. (SELAF, 354; Arctique, 3.) Leuven (Belgium) & Paris: Peeters, 1996. Pp. x, 331. Pb BEF 1200.1998/04/01English
Modeling the speech community: Configuration and variable types in the Mexican Spanish setting1998/01/01English
Andrew Dalby,Dictionary of languages: The definitive reference to more than 400 languages. London: Bloomsbury; New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 734. $50.00.2000/07/01English
Rachmiel Peltz, From immigrant to ethnic culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 263. Hb $49.50, pb $18.95.2000/01/01English
Nanette Gottlieb, Kanji politics: Language policy and Japanese script. London & New York: Kegan Paul International, 1995. Pp. 245. [Distrib. by Columbia University Press, hb $76.50.]1999/01/01
DOUGLAS C. BAYNTON, Forbidden signs: American culture and the campaign against sign language. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 228. Hb $27.50.1998/10/01English
The construction of conflicting accounts in public participation TV2000/07/01English
Webb Keane, Signs of recognition: Powers and hazards of representation in an Indonesian society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xxix, 297. Hb $50.00, pb $20.00.1999/01/01
Jonathan Potter, Representing reality: Discourse, rhetoric and social construction. London (UK) & Thousand Oaks (CA): Sage, 1996. Pp. x, 253. Hb $65.00, pb $22.95.1999/01/01
Wayne A. Beach, Conversations about illness: Family preoccupations with bulimia. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1996. Pp. vii, 148. Hb $36.00, pb $16.00.2000/07/01English
Walt Wolfram, Carolyn Temple Adger, & Donna Christian, Dialects in schools and communities. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1999. Pp. xi, 239. Hb $49.95, pb $24.95.2001/01/01English
Preface1999/04/01English
Competing communicative styles and crosstalk: A multi-feature analysis1999/01/01English
SUSAN J. DICKER, Languages in America: A pluralist view. (Bilingual education & bilingualism, 10.) Clevedon (UK) & Philadelphia (PA): Multilingual Matters, 1996. Pp. xvi, 278. Pb $19.95.1998/10/01English
Mara B. Adelman & Lawrence R. Frey, The fragile community: Living together with AIDS. (Everyday communication: Case studies of behavior in context.) Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1997. Pp. xii, 128. Hb $36.00, pb $16.50.2000/04/01English
John Conley & William O'Barr, Just words: Law, language, and power. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 168. Hb $35.00, pb $13.00.2000/10/01English
GARY B. PALMER, Toward a theory of cultural linguistics. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 348. Hb $45.00, pb $21.95.1998/10/01English
Roger W. Shuy, Bureaucratic language in government and business. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 190. Hb $49.95, pb $19.95.2001/01/01English
Irony in conversation1999/10/01English
Creole is, Creole ain't: Diachronic and synchronic attitudes toward Creole identity in southern Louisiana2000/04/01English