Language in Society

Volume 29 : Issue 1

Table of Contents

• Overlapping talk and the organization of turn-taking for conversation 
  EMANUEL A. SCHEGLOFF
  Page 1-63
• Creating a New Town koine: Children and language change in Milton Keynes 
  PAUL KERSWILL and ANN WILLIAMS
  Page 65-115
• John Haiman, Talk is cheap: Sarcasm, alienation, and the evolution of language. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 220. Hb $40.00, pb $18.95. 
  Rudolf P. Gaudio
  Page 117-120
• Rodolfo Jacobson (ed.), Codeswitching worldwide. (Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs, 106.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1998. Pp. vi, 267. Hb DM 218.00. 
  Michael Clyne
  Page 123-126
• Gerry Knowles, A cultural history of the English language. London: Arnold, 1997. Pp. x, 180. Hb $59.95, pb $20.00. 
  Richard W. Bailey
  Page 131-133
• Martha Komter, Dilemmas in the courtroom: A study of trials of violent crime in the Netherlands. (Everyday communication: Case studies of behavior in context.) Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1998. Pp. xxix, 186. Hb $49.95, pb $27.50. 
  Greg Matoesian
  Page 133-136
• Lawrence B. Breitborde, Speaking and social identity: English in the lives of urban Africans. (Studies in anthropological linguistics, 11.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1998. Pp. xii, 227. Hb DM 198.00. 
  Jan Bernsten
  Page 136-138
• Jane Kamensky, Governing the tongue: The politics of speech in early New England. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 291. Hb $35.00. 
  E. Jennifer Monaghan
  Page 141-144
• Albert Valdman (ed.), French and creole in Louisiana. (Topics in language and linguistics.) New York ; London: Plenum, 1997. Pp. xiii, 372. 
  Felice Anne Coles
  Page 144-147
• Rachmiel Peltz, From immigrant to ethnic culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 263. Hb $49.50, pb $18.95. 
  Miriam Isaacs
  Page 147-150
• NOTE 
  William Bright
  Page 155-155
• PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED 
  
  Page 156-159