Language in Society

Volume 30 : Issue 1

Table of Contents

• Calculating speakers: Codeswitching in a rational choice model 
  CAROL MYERS-SCOTTON and AGNES BOLONYAI
  Page 1
• Interactional prosody: High onsets in reason-for-the-call turns 
  Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
  Page 29
• Bilingual intonation patterns: Evidence of language change from Turkish-German bilingual children 
  Robin M. Queen
  Page 55
• Garifuna childrens language shame: Ethnic stereotypes, national affiliation, and transnational immigration as factors in language choice in southern Belize 
  DONNA M. BONNER
  Page 81
• Daniel Nettle, Linguistic diversity. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 168. Hb $65.00, pb $19.95. 
  Patrick McConvell
  Page 97
• Bambi Schieffelin, Kathryn Woolard, Paul Kroskrity (eds.), Language ideologies: Practice and theory. (Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics, 16.) Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 338. Hb $75.00, pb $35.00. 
  Jacqueline Urla
  Page 100
• Jef Verschueren, Understanding pragmatics. (Understanding language series.) London: Arnold; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 295. Pb 13.99, $19.95. 
  Alexandra Jaffe
  Page 104
• Roger W. Shuy, Bureaucratic language in government and business. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 190. Hb $49.95, pb $19.95. 
  Joanna Channell
  Page 107
• Susan Philips, Ideology in the language of judges: How judges practice law, politics, and courtroom control. (Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics, 17.) Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 205. Hb $59.00, pb $29.95. 
  Elizabeth Mertz
  Page 111
• Miriam Isaacs Lewis Glinert (eds.), Pious voices: Languages among Ultra-Orthodox Jews. (International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 138.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1990. Pp. 187. Pb $46.00. 
  Bernard Spolsky
  Page 115
• Gennady Estraikh, Soviet Yiddish: Language planning and linguistic development. (Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.) Oxford: Clarendon; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 217. Hb $70.00. 
  Robert D. King
  Page 118
• Ping Chen, Modern Chinese: History and sociolinguistics. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 229. Hb $59.95, pb $21.95. 
  Mary S. Erbaugh
  Page 121
• Martha C. Pennington (ed.), Language in Hong Kong at centurys end. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 449. US $33.40. 
  William S-Y. Wang
  Page 123
• France Mugler John Lynch (eds.), Pacific languages in education. Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 1996. Pp. viii, 310. Pb US $8.00. 
  Christine Jourdan
  Page 127
• John Baugh, Out of the mouths of slaves: African American language and educational malpractice. Foreword by William Labov. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 190. Hb $25.00, pb $12.95. 
  Marcyliena Morgan
  Page 130
• Walt Wolfram, Carolyn Temple Adger, Donna Christian, Dialects in schools and communities. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1999. Pp. xi, 239. Hb $49.95, pb $24.95. 
  Courtney B. Cazden
  Page 133
• Claire Lefebvre, Creole genesis and the acquisition of grammar: The case of Haitian Creole. (Cambridge studies in linguistics, 88.) Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 461. Hb 45.00, $74.95. 
  Adrienne Bruyn
  Page 135
• Cecil H. Brown, Lexical acculturation in Native American languages. (Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics, 20.) New York Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 259. Hb. $55.00. 
  Catherine S. Fowler
  Page 139
• Susan Garzon, R. McKenna Brown, Julia Becker Richards, Wuqu Ajpub (Arnulfo Simn), The life of our language: Kaqchikel Maya maintenance, shift, and revitalization. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 239. Hb $35.00, pb $17.95. 
  Judith M. Maxwell
  Page 141