Language in Society

Volume 29 : Issue 3

Table of Contents

• The regional context of earlier African American speech: Evidence for reconstructing the development of AAVE 
  WALT WOLFRAM, ERIK R. THOMAS and ELAINE W. GREEN
  Page 315-355
• The construction of conflicting accounts in public participation TV 
  JOANNA THORNBORROW
  Page 357-377
• Inviting collaborations in stories about a woman 
  WAYNE A. BEACH
  Page 379-407
• Christina Bratt Paulston ; G. Richard Tucker (eds.), The early days of sociolinguistics: Memories and reflections. (Publications in sociolinguistics, 2.) Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1997. Pp. xii, 362. 
  Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
  Page 413-415
• Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Dinner talk: Cultural patterns of sociability and socialization in family discourse. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1997. Pp. ix, 306. 
  Annabel Greenhill
  Page 420-423
• Wayne A. Beach, Conversations about illness: Family preoccupations with bulimia. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1996. Pp. vii, 148. Hb $36.00, pb $16.00. 
  Elizabeth A. Boyd
  Page 423-425
• Roger W. Shuy, The language of confession, interrogation, and deception. (Empirical linguistics series.) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998. Pp. vii, 205. 
  Margaret van Naerssen
  Page 425-428
• Dwight Atkinson, Scientific discourse in sociohistorical context: The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1675;1975. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1999. Pp. xxxi, 208. 
  Greg Myers
  Page 429-432
• Elizabeth Lanza, Language mixing in bilingual children. (Oxford studies in language contact.) Oxford: Clarendon; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 397. Hb $90.00. 
  Rosemarie Tracy
  Page 432-435
• Frans Hinskens, Roeland van Hout, ; W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), Variation, change and phonological theory. (Current issues in linguistic theory, 146.) Amsterdam: Benjamins. Pp. x, 314. Hb NLG 150.00, $75.00. 
  John C. Paolillo
  Page 435-438
• Nancy Ries, Russian talk: Culture and conversation during perestroika. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 220. Hb $39.95, pb $16.95. 
  Andrea ;Aacute;gnes Rem;eacute;nyi
  Page 444-446
• Susan F. Hirsch, Pronouncing and persevering: Gender and the discourses of disputing in an African Islamic court. (Language and legal discourse.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 360. Hb $48.00, pb $19.00. 
  Gregory M. Matoesian
  Page 449-453
• J. Joseph Errington, Shifting languages: Interaction and identity in Javanese Indonesian. (Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language, 19.) Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 216. 
  Kathryn A. Woolard
  Page 456-460
• Karl Kroeber, Artistry in Native American myths. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 292. Hb $35.00, pb $12.00. 
  Robert Bringhurst
  Page 460-463
• Albert Valdman, Thomas A. Klingler, Margaret M. Marshall, ; Kevin J. Rottet, Dictionary of Louisiana Creole. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. Pp. 656. Hb $75.00. 
  Felice Anne Coles
  Page 468-470
• Andrew Dalby, Dictionary of languages: The definitive reference to more than 400 languages. London: Bloomsbury; New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 734. $50.00. 
  Peter T. Daniels
  Page 470-472