Language in Society

Volume 28 : Issue 1

Table of Contents

• Re-engaging and dis-engaging talk in activity 
  MARGARET H. SZYMANSKI
  Page 1-23
• Competing communicative styles and crosstalk: A multi-feature analysis 
  JEFF CONNOR-LINTON
  Page 25-56
• Historic low prestige and seeds of change: Attitudes toward Jamaican Creole 
  ALICIA BECKFORD WASSINK
  Page 57-92
• Marlis Hellinger ; Ulrich Ammon (eds.), Contrastive sociolinguistics. (Contributions to the sociology of language, 71.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996. Pp. 504. Hb DM 228.00. 
  Mark Sebba
  Page 95-97
• Teun A. van Dijk (ed.), Discourse as structure and process. (Discourse studies: A multidisciplinary introduction, 1.) London (UK) ; Thousand Oaks (CA): Sage, 1997. Pp. xii, 356. Hb $75.00, pb $27.50. 
  Jay L. Lemke
  Page 98-101
• Teun A. van Dijk (ed.), Discourse as social interaction. (Discourse studies: A multidisciplinary introduction, 2.) London (UK) ; Thousand Oaks (CA): Sage, 1997. Pp. xii, 324. Hb $75.00, pb $28.95. 
  David Silverman
  Page 101-103
• Vai Ramanathan, Alzheimer discourse: Some sociolinguistic dimensions. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1997. Pp. x, 138. Hb $36.00, pb $18.00. 
  Ruth Lesser
  Page 110-113
• Harold Schiffman, Linguistic culture and language policy. (The politics of language.) London: Routledge, 1996. Pp. xii, 351. 
  Roland J.-L. Breton
  Page 113-116
• Michael Clyne (ed.), Undoing and redoing corpus planning. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. Pp. viii, 520. 
  Kingsley Bolton
  Page 116-120
• David Crystal, English as a global language. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 150. Hb $9.95. 
  Roland Sussex
  Page 120-124
• Aidan Coveney, Variability in spoken French: A sociolinguistic study of interrogation and negation. Exeter, UK: Elm Bank, 1996. Pp. 271. Pb ;24.99. 
  William J. Ashby
  Page 130-134
• Timothy Pooley, Chtimi: The urban vernaculars of northern France. (Applications in French linguistics, 2.) Clevedon (UK) ; Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters, 1996. Pp. viii, 318. Hb $99.00. 
  Diana L. Ranson
  Page 134-137
• Haru Yamada, Different games, different rules: Why Americans and Japanese misunderstand each other. Foreword by Deborah Tannen. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 166. Hb $24.00. 
  Laura Miller
  Page 137-141
• J. Marshall Unger, Literacy and script reform in Occupation Japan: Reading between the lines. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 176. Hb $39.95. 
  Timothy J. Vance
  Page 141-145
• Webb Keane, Signs of recognition: Powers and hazards of representation in an Indonesian society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xxix, 297. Hb $50.00, pb $20.00. 
  Jean DeBernardi
  Page 145-148
• Nancy H. Hornberger (ed.), Indigenous literacies in the Americas: Language planning from the bottom up. (Contributions to the sociology of language, 75.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. Pp. 394. 
  Andr;eacute;e Tabouret-Keller
  Page 159-162
• Greg Urban, Metaphysical community: The interplay of the senses and the intellect. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 288. Hb $40.00, pb $19.95. 
  Asif Agha
  Page 162-167
• Shirley Silver ; Wick R. Miller, American Indian languages: Cultural and social contexts. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 433. Hb $60.00. 
  William Bright
  Page 169-170