Language in Society

Volume 27 : Issue 1

Table of Contents

• Parameter setting within a socially realistic linguistics 
  JOHN WILSON and ALISON HENRY
  Page 1-21
• Modeling the speech community: Configuration and variable types in the Mexican Spanish setting  
  OTTO SANTA ANA and CLAUDIA PARODI
  Page 23-51
• Displaying opinions: Topics and disagreement in focus groups 
  GREG MYERS
  Page 85-111
• The atlas of languages: The origin and development of languages throughout the world. Consultant editors: Bernard Comrie, Stephen Matthews, and Maria Polinsky. Foreword by Jean Aitchison. London: Quarto; New York: Facts on File, 1996. Pp. 224. Hb $35.00. 
  Peter T. Daniels
  Page 113-117
• Michael L. Geis, Speech acts and conversational interaction: Toward a theory of conversational competence. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 248. 
  Andrew L. Roth
  Page 117-120
• Douglas Biber, Dimensions of register variation: A cross-linguistic comparison. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xvii, 428. Hb $59.95. 
  Niko Besnier
  Page 126-129
• Gerald Newton (ed.), Luxembourg and L;tzebuergesch: Language and communication at the crossroads of Europe. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 286. Hb $70.00. 
  Michael Clyne
  Page 129-132
• Bernard Comrie, Gerald Stone, and Maria Polinsky, The Russian language in the 20th century. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 345. Hb $80.00. 
  Catherine V. Chvany
  Page 132-137
• 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. 
  Ron Scollon
  Page 141-143