Language in Society

Volume 27 : Issue 4

Table of Contents

• Language policy, language education, language rights: Indigenous, immigrant, and international perspectives 
  Nancy H. Hornberger
  Page 439-458
• Classification and counter-classification of language on Saint Barth;lemy 
  JON F. PRESSMAN
  Page 459-494
• Figures of speech: Figurative expressions and the management of topic transition in conversation 
  PAUL DREW and ELIZABETH HOLT
  Page 495-522
• Gary B. Palmer, Toward a theory of cultural linguistics. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 348. Hb $45.00, pb $21.95. 
  Michael Agar
  Page 523-526
• Michael Silverstein ; Greg Urban (eds.), Natural histories of discourse. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 352. 
  Joel Kuipers
  Page 526-529
• Donal Carbaugh, Situating selves: The communication of social identities in American scenes. (Human communication processes.) Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 238. Pb $19.95. 
  Susan U. Philips
  Page 529-532
• Rosina Lippi-Green, English with an accent: Language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States. London ; New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. xvii, 286. Hb. $65.00, pb. $18.95. 
  Robin M. Queen
  Page 536-541
• 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. 
  Richard J. Senghas
  Page 541-544
• Lourdes Torres, Puerto Rican discourse: A sociolinguistic study. (Everyday communication: Case studies of behavior in context.) Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1997. Pp. xx, 138. Hb $32.50, pb $16.95. 
  Bonnie Urciuoli
  Page 545-548
• Ana Roca ; John B. Jensen (eds.), Spanish in contact: Issues in bilingualism. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla, 1996. Pp. xi, 226. Pb $23.95. 
  Robert E. Vann
  Page 548-552
• Ben Rampton, Crossing: Language and ethnicity among adolescents. (Real language series). London ; New York: Longman, 1995. Pp. xx, 384. 
  Betsy Rymes
  Page 552-555
• Hilary Mackie, Talking Trojan: Speech and community in the Iliad. (Greek studies: Interdisciplinary approaches). Lanham, MD: Rowan ; Littlefield, 1996. Pp. x, 198. Hb $52.50, pb $21.95. 
  Leslie Threatte
  Page 556-558
• Eleanor Dickey, Greek forms of address: From Herodotus to Lucian. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xxi, 336. Hb $75.00. 
  Andr;eacute; Lardinois
  Page 558-561
• Andrew Shryock, Nationalism and the genealogical imagination: Oral history and textual authority in tribal Jordan. (Comparative studies on Muslim societies, 23.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xi, 359. Hb $50.00, pb $20.00. 
  Elizabeth Tonkin
  Page 562-564
• K. Dallas Kenny, Language loss and the crisis of cognition: Between socio- and psycholinguistics. (Contributions to the sociology of language, 73.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996. Pp. xiv, 306. Hb DM 158.00. 
  Alan S. Kaye
  Page 565-568
• 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. 
  Carol Myers-Scotton
  Page 568-571
• Martin P;tz (ed.), Discrimination through language in Africa? Perspectives on the Namibian experience. (Contributions to the sociology of language, 69.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1995. Pp. ix, 338. Hb DM 178.00. 
  Robert K. Herbert
  Page 571-574