Language in Society

Volume 27 : Issue 2

Table of Contents

• Stereotypes and registers of honorific language 
  ASIF AGHA
  Page 151-193
• Prosodic features of bad news and good news in conversation 
  JEREMY FREESE and DOUGLAS W. MAYNARD
  Page 195-219
• Narratives and explanations during mealtime conversations in Norway and the U.S. 
  VIBEKE GR;Oslash;VER AUKRUST and CATHERINE E. SNOW
  Page 221-246
• Robin Dunbar, Grooming, gossip, and the evolution of language. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. 230. Hb $22.95. 
  Robin M. Queen
  Page 252-257
• Traute Ewers, The origin of American Black English: Be-forms in the HOODOO texts. (Topics in English Linguistics, 15.) Mouton de Gruyter, 1996. Pp. xi, 327. Hb DM 158.00. 
  John Baugh
  Page 270-273
• Emanuel J. Drechsel, Mobilian Jargon: Linguistic and sociohistorical aspects of a Native American pidgin. (Oxford studies in language contact.) Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 392. Hb $59.00. 
  Jack B. Martin
  Page 280-283