Language in Society

Title Publication Date Language Citations
NIKO BESNIER, Literacy, emotion, and authority: Reading and writing on a Polynesian atoll. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xx, 234.1998/06/01English
Susan Philips, Ideology in the language of judges: How judges practice law, politics, and courtroom control. (Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics, 17.) Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 205. Hb $59.00, pb $29.95.2001/01/01English
Daniel Nettle, Linguistic diversity. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 168. Hb $65.00, pb $19.95.2001/01/01English
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED1999/10/01
Regna Darnell, And along came Boas: Continuity and revolution in Americanist anthropology. (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, 86.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1998. Pp. xviii, 331. Hb $89.00.2000/10/01English
James M. Wilce,Eloquence in trouble: The poetics and politics of complaint in rural Bangladesh. (Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics, 21). Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 300. Hb $65.00.2000/07/01English
David Crystal, English as a global language. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 150. Hb $9.95.1999/01/01
Gennady Estraikh, Soviet Yiddish: Language planning and linguistic development. (Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.) Oxford: Clarendon; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 217. Hb $70.00.2001/01/01English
REIKO HAYASHI, Cognition, empathy, and interaction: Floor management of English and Japanese conversation. (Advances in discourse processes, 54.) Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1996.1998/06/01English
Deborah Cameron, Good to talk? Living and working in a communication culture. London, Thousand Oaks, CA, and New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2000. Pp. ix, 213. Hb $65.00, pb $24.95.2001/04/01English
The grammaticalization of participant roles in the constitution of expert identity1999/10/01English
Peter Bakker, “A language of our own”: The genesis of Michif, the mixed Cree-French language of the Canadian Métis. (Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics, 10.) Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 316. Hb $80.00, pb $45.00.1999/01/01
CHASE HENSEL, Telling our selves: Ethnicity and discourse in southwestern Alaska. (Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics, 5.) Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 220. Hb $49.95, pb $24.95.1998/01/01English
Mary Bucholtz, A. C. Laing, & Laurel A. Sutton (eds.), Reinventing identities: The gendered self in discourse. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 431. Pb $35.00.2001/04/01English
Richard W. Bailey, Nineteenth-century English. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 372. Pb $19.95.2000/04/01English
TERTTU NEVALAINEN & HELENA RAUMOLIN-BRUNBERG (eds.), Sociolinguistics and language history: Studies based on the Corpus of Early English Correspondence. (Language and computers: Studies in practical linguistics, 15.) Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996. Pp. 213. Pb Dfl. 30.00, US $20.00.1998/06/01English
DOUGLAS BIBER, Dimensions of register variation: A cross-linguistic comparison. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xvii, 428. Hb $59.95.1998/01/01English
Walt Wolfram & Natalie Schilling-Estes, American English: Dialects and variation. (Language in society, 24). Oxford (UK) & Malden (MA): Blackwell, 1998. Pp. xvii, 398. Pb $29.95.2000/04/01English
Shanna Poplack (ed.), The English history of African American English. (Language in Society, 28.) Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. Pp. v + 277. Pb $31.95.2001/04/01English
Bill Cope & Mary Kalantzis (eds.), Multiliteracies: Literacy learning and the design of social futures. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xi, 350. Hb $90.00, pb $29.99.2001/04/01English
Roger W. Shuy,The language of confession, interrogation, and deception. (Empirical linguistics series.) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998. Pp. vii, 205.2000/07/01English
Martin Pütz (ed.), Language choices: Conditions, constraints, and consequences. (Impact: Studies in language and society, 1.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1997. Pp. ix, 427. Hb $127.00.2000/01/01English
Robert Magocsi (ed.), A new Slavic language is born: The Rusyn literary language of Slovakia / Zrodil sa nový slovanský jazyk: Rusínsky spisovný jazyk na Slovensku. (East European monographs, 184; Classics of Carpatho-Rusyn scholarship, 8.) New York: Columbia University Press, New York, NY, 1996. Pp. xv, 1–79 in English; 16 pp. of illustrations (unnumbered); pp. xiv, 1–68 in Slovak. Hb $28.00.1999/10/01
Vai Ramanathan, Alzheimer discourse: Some sociolinguistic dimensions. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1997. Pp. x, 138. Hb $36.00, pb $18.00.1999/01/01
PAUL BRUTHIAUX, The discourse of classified advertising: Exploring the nature of linguistic simplicity. (Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.) Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 208. Hb $45.00.1998/06/01English
CLINTON D.W. ROBINSON, Language use and rural development: An African perspective. (Contributions to the sociology of language, 70.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996. Pp. ix, 327. Hb DM 190.00.1998/10/01English
Standardization or restandardization: The case for “Standard” Spoken Tamil1998/06/01English
Classification and counter-classification of language on Saint Barthélemy1998/10/01English
Language policy, language education, language rights: Indigenous, immigrant, and international perspectives1998/10/01English
Stereotypes and registers of honorific language1998/04/01English