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Volume 17 - June 1988

Review Article

Politeness in context: Intergenerational issues (Review article)

Book Review

John Edwards, Language, society, and identity. Oxford: Basil Blackwell (in association with André Deutsch), 1985. Pp. x + 245.

Language varieties and situations - Barbara Horvath, Variation in Australian English: The sociolects of Sydney. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xi + 200.

Joyce Penfield and Jacob L. Ornstein-Galicia, Chicano English: An ethnic contact dialect. (Varieties of English Around the World 7.) Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1985. Pp. 2 + 112.

Jef Verschueren, What people say they do with words. (Advances in Discourse Processes, XIV.) Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1985. Pp. x + 265.

Kenneth D. McRae, Conflict and compromise in multilingual societies: Belgium. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1986. Pp. xiv + 387.

Dimensions of Sociolinguistics - Paul Atkinson, Language, structure, and reproduction: An introduction to the sociology of Basil Bernstein. London: Methuen, 1985. Pp. 216.

Annette Schmidt, Young people's Dyirbal: An example of language death from Australia. (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Supplementary Volume). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xviii + 252.

James Milroy and Lesley Milroy, Authority in language: Investigating language prescription and standardisation. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.

Language Varieties and Situations - Kenneth Liberman, Understanding interaction in Central Australia: An ethnomethodological study of Australian Aboriginal people. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. Pp vii + 344.

Sociohistorical linguistics - Carey McIntosh, Common and courtly language. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. Pp. viii + 167.

Discourse - Torben Vestergaard and Kim Schrøder, The language of advertising. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985. Pp. x + 182.

Language acquisition - D. Premack, Gavagai! Or the future history of the animal learning controversy. (The MIT Press Series in Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change.) Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986. Pp. 164.

Resources for discourse - Anna Wierzbicka, Lexicography and conceptual analysis. Ann Arbor: Karoma, 1985. Pp. 368.

Bengt Nordberg, Det mångskiftande språket: Om variation i nusvenskan. [Multivaried language: On variation in present-day Swedish]. (Ord och stil: Språkvårdssamfundets skrifter, 14.) Lund, Sweden: Liber Förlag, 1985. Pp. 124.

Language Varieties and Situations - Heinz Kloss (ed.), Deutsch als Muttersprache in den Vereinigten Staaten, Teil II: Regionale und funktionale Aspekte [German as a mother tongue in the United States, Part II: Regional and functional aspects]. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1985. Pp. xii + 306.

Literacy - Jenny Cook-Gumperz (ed.), The social construction of literacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. X + 248.

John M. Kirk, Stewart Sanderson, and J. D. A. Widdowson (eds.), Studies in linguistic geography: The dialects of English in Britain and Ireland. London: Croom Helm, 1985. Pp. xix + 186.

Lucía Elías-Olivares, Elizabeth A. Leone, Rene Cisneros, and John Gutierrez (eds.), Spanish language use and public life in the USA (Contributions to the Sociology of Language, 35.) Berlin: Mouton, 1985. Pp. 238.

Neal Norrick, How proverbs mean: Semantic studies in English proverbs. Berlin: Mouton, 1985. Pp. 213.

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