Language in Society

Volume 29 : Issue 4

Table of Contents

• The construction of units in conversational talk 
  MARGRET SELTING
  Page 477-517
• Creating speech register in Thai conversation 
  SHOICHI IWASAKI and PREEYA INGKAPHIROM HORIE
  Page 519-554
• Language and negotiation of ethnic/racial identity among Dominican Americans 
  Benjamin Bailey
  Page 555-582
• Isabella Paoletti, Being an older woman: A study in the social production of identity. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1998. Pp. xiv, 94. Hb $36.00, pb $19.95. 
  Howard Giles
  Page 597-600
• David McKnight, People, countries, and the Rainbow Serpent: Systems of classification among the Lardil of Mornington Island. (Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics, 12.) Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 270. Hb $75.00. 
  Chet Creider
  Page 606-609
• Regna Darnell, And along came Boas: Continuity and revolution in Americanist anthropology. (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, 86.) Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1998. Pp. xviii, 331. Hb $89.00. 
  Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
  Page 612-615
• Rosaleen Howard-Malverde (ed.), Creating context in Andean cultures. (Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics, 6.) Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii, 255. Pb $29.95. 
  Kendall A. King
  Page 615-618