Language in Society

Volume 31 : Issue 1

Table of Contents

• When up is down and down is up: Body orientation, proximity, and gestures as resources 
  WOLFF-MICHAEL ROTH and DANIEL V. LAWLESS
  Page 1-28
• Bilingual discourse markers in Puerto Rican Spanish 
  LOURDES TORRES
  Page 65-83
• Display and reaffirmation of affect bond and relationship: Invited guessing in Chinese telephone conversations 
  HAO SUN
  Page 85-112
• John H. McWhorter, The missing Spanish creoles: Recovering the birth of plantation contact languages. Berkeley, Los Angeles, ; London: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. ix + 281. Hb $45.00. 
  Armin Schwegler
  Page 113-121
• Arthur K. Spears (ed.), Race and ideology: Language, symbolism, and popular culture. (African American Life Series.) Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999. Pp. 242. Hb $39.95, pb $19.95. 
  Leela Tanikella
  Page 122-125
• Lynn S. Messing ; Ruth Campbell (eds.), Gesture, speech, and sign. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xxv + 227. Hb $85.00. 
  Leila Monaghan
  Page 125-128
• Karol Janicki, Against essentialism: Toward language awareness. Lincom Studies in Pragmatics 07. Munich: Lincom Europa. 1999. Pp. vi + 253. Pb $55. 
  Roman Kopytko
  Page 128-131
• Maryann Overstreet, Whales, candlelight, and stuff like that: General extenders in English discourse. (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 171. Hb. $39.95. 
  Catherine N. Ball
  Page 132-134
• Fern L. Johnson, Speaking culturally: Language diversity in the United States. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000. Pp. xviii + 365. Hb $59.95, pb $28.95. 
  Karen L. Adams
  Page 143-146
• Jacqueline Lindenfeld, The French in the United States: An ethnographic study. Westport, Conn.: Bergin ; Garvey, 2000. Pp. xiv + 184. Hb $55.00. 
  Jos;eacute;e Makropoulos
  Page 146-149