Language in Society

Volume 34 : Issue 3

Table of Contents

• What a language is good for: Language socialization, language shift, and the persistence of code-specific genres in St. Lucia 
  PAUL B. GARRETT
  Page 327
• Language attitudes of the first postcolonial generation in Hong Kong secondary schools 
  MEE-LING LAI
  Page 363
• Grammar and the timing of social action: Word order and preference organization in Japanese 
  HIROKO TANAKA
  Page 389
• A Chinese yuppie in Beijing: Phonological variation and the construction of a new professional identity 
  QING ZHANG
  Page 431
• Investigating language attitudes: Social meanings of dialect, ethnicity and performance 
  Juan Manuel Hernndez-Campoy
  Page 467
• Living narrative: Creating lives in everyday storytelling 
  Mariana Souto Manning and Betsy Rymes
  Page 470
• First language acquisition 
  Edith L. Bavin
  Page 474
• Exploring media discourse 
  Kumiko Murata
  Page 477
• Language in Cape Towns District Six 
  Pol Cuvelier
  Page 482
• Russian-English code-switching in New York City 
  Marita Roth
  Page 485
• Publications Received 
  
  Page 489
• Editors Note 
  Barbara Johnstone
  Page 491