Language in Society

Volume 27 : Issue 3

Table of Contents

• Oh-prefaced responses to inquiry 
  JOHN HERITAGE
  Page 291-334
• Micro language planning and the revival of Hebrew: A schematic framework 
  MOSHE NAHIR
  Page 335-357
• 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. 
  Nikolas Coupland
  Page 397-399
• 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. 
  G;ouml;ran Kjellmer
  Page 399-402
• Lisa Capps ; Elinor Ochs, Constructing panic: The discourse of agoraphobia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 244. Hb $29.95. 
  Heidi E. Hamilton
  Page 402-405
• Sue Fisher, Nursing wounds: Nurse practitioners, doctors, women patients and the negotiation of meaning. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 259. Hb $42.00, pb $16.00. 
  Richard Gwyn
  Page 406-409
• Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (ed.), Multilingualism for all. Lisse (Netherlands): Swets ; Zeitlinger, 1995. Pp. vi, 293. Pb $59.00. 
  Joshua A. Fishman
  Page 413-415
• David B. Kronenfeld, Plastic glasses and church fathers: Semantic extension from the ethnoscience tradition. (Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics, 3.) Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 273. Hb $49.95, pb $24.95. 
  John B. Gatewood
  Page 416-418
• Niko Besnier, Literacy, emotion, and authority: Reading and writing on a Polynesian atoll. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xx, 234. 
  Leila F. Monaghan
  Page 418-421
• 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. 
  Lawrence D. Carrington
  Page 421-423
• 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. 
  Jill Brody
  Page 423-426
• William M. Clements, Native American verbal art: Texts and contexts. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 252. Hb $45.00, pb $19.95. 
  Jarold Ramsey
  Page 426-430