Language in Society

Volume 28 : Issue 4

Table of Contents

• The grammaticalization of participant roles in the constitution of expert identity 
  GREGORY M. MATOESIAN
  Page 491-521
• Irony in conversation 
  REBECCA CLIFT
  Page 523-553
• Age at immigration and second language proficiency among foreign-born adults 
  GILLIAN STEVENS
  Page 555-578
• Alessandro Duranti, Linguistic anthropology. (Cambridge textbooks in linguistics.) Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 398. Hb $59.95, pb $19.95. 
  Joseph Errington
  Page 579-582
• David L. Shaul ; N. Louanna Furbee, Language and culture. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland, 1998. Pp. xiv, 303. Pb $13.95. 
  Susan D. Blum
  Page 582-585
• John R. Taylor ; Robert E. MacLaury (eds.), Language and the cognitive construal of the world. (Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs, 82). Berlin: Mouton De Gruyer, 1995. Pp. xiii, 406. DM 178.00. 
  Margaret E. Winters
  Page 586-588
• Rajendra Singh, Lectures against sociolinguistics. New York: Peter Lang, 1996. Pp. xix, 180. 
  Christopher McAll
  Page 591-594
• Tony Crowley, Language in history: Theories and texts. (The politics of language series.) London ; New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. viii, 215. Pb $18.95. 
  John E. Joseph
  Page 600-605
• Ruth Wodak, Disorders of discourse. (Real language series.) London: Longman, 1996. Pp. xi, 200. Pb ;15.99. 
  Norman Fairclough
  Page 605-609
• Sarah G. Thomason (ed.), Contact languages: A wider perspective. (Creole language library, 17.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1997. Pp. xii, 506. Hb $165.00. 
  Bernard Comrie
  Page 615-621
• Sumathi Ramaswamy, Passions of the tongue: Language devotion in Tamil India, 1891;1970. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xxiii, 303. Hb $50.00, pb $20.00. 
  Stuart Blackburn
  Page 628-630
• Ives Goddard (ed.), Handbook of North American Indians, 17: Languages. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1996. Pp. xiii, 957. Hb $74.00. 
  Regna Darnell
  Page 630-634
• Anatole Lyovin, Introduction to the languages of the world. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 491. Pb $35.00. 
  Peter T. Daniels
  Page 634-638