Language in Society

Volume 33 : Issue 5

Table of Contents

• Writing as a problem: African grassroots writing, economies of literacy, and globalization 
  JAN BLOMMAERT
  Page 643
• Evaluation in media texts: A cross-cultural linguistic investigation 
  LILY CHEN
  Page 673
• The relevance of repair for classroom correction 
  DOUGLAS MACBETH
  Page 703
• The forgotten endangered languages: Lessons on the importance of remembering from Thailands Ban Khor Sign Language 
  ANGELA M. NONAKA
  Page 737
• J. K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill and Natalie Schilling-Estes (eds.), The handbook of language variation and change. (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics.) Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell. 2002. xii + 807 pp. 
  Rajend Mesthrie
  Page 769
• Rodolfo Jacobson (ed.), Codeswitching worldwide II. (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs, 126.) Berlin New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001. Pp. ii, 371. Hb DM 178EUR 91.01. 
  Rudolph C. Troike
  Page 772
• Robert Bayley and Sandra R. Schecter (eds.), Language socialization in bilingual and multilingual societies. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters Ltd., 2003. Pp. xii, 311. Hb $79.95, pb $29.95. 
  Paul B. Garrett
  Page 776
• Machiko Achiba, Learning to request in a second language: A study of child interlanguage pragmatics. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2003. Pp. xii, 223. HB 42.95US $69.95Can $99.95. 
  Akiko Kato-Yoshioka
  Page 780
• Andrew Dalby, Language in danger: The loss of linguistic diversity and the threat to our future. New York: Columbia University Press. 329 pages. Hb $27.95. 
  Kevin J. Rottet
  Page 783
• Stephen J. Nagle and Sara L. Sanders (eds.), English in the southern United States. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 244. Hb $55.00 
  Charles DeBose
  Page 786
• Publications Received 
  
  Page 791
• EDITORS NOTE 
  Jane H. Hill
  Page 793