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Volume 40 - June 2011

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Edward Sapir, The collected works of Edward Sapir, vol. 1: General linguistics. Ed. by Pierre Swiggers. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008. Pp. 582. Hb. $298.

Teun A. van Dijk (ed.), Racism and discourse in Latin America. Lanham, ML: Lexington Books, 2009. Pp. ix, 343. Hb $158.

Hans C. Boas, The life and death of Texas German. (Publication of the American Dialect Society 93.) Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. Pp. xii, 345. Hb. $20.

Kristin Denham & Anne Lobeck (eds.), Linguistics at school: Language awareness in primary and secondary education. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xv, 311. Hb. $99.

Esperanca Bielsa & Susan Bassnett, Translation in global news. London: Routledge, 2009. Pp. vi, 162. Pb. $37.79.

Michael H. Long & Catherine J. Doughty (eds.), The handbook of language teaching. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Pp. xix, 330. Hb. $161.76.

Piotr P. Chruszczewski & Jacek Fisiak, Studies in American language, culture, and literature. (Język a komunikacja 24.) Krakow: Tertium, 2009. Pp. 253.

Patricia A. Edwards, Gwendolyn Thompson Mcmillon, & Jennifer D. Turner, Change is gonna come: Transforming literacy education for African American students. New York: Teachers College Press, 2010. Pp. xx, 202. Hb. $59. Pb. $24.95.

Sara Mills, Language and sexism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. ix, 178. Pb. $35.99.

Arja Nurmi, Minna Nevala, & Minna Palander-Collin, The language of daily life in England (1400–1800). Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2009. Pp. vi, 312. Hb. $158.

Cecilia E. Ford, Women speaking up: Getting and using turns in workplace meetings. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Pp. xi, 256. Hb. $80.

Laurel J. Brinton, The comment clause in English: Syntactic origins and pragmatic development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xvii, 280. Hb. $99.

Geoffrey Hughes, Political correctness: A history of semantics and culture. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Pp. viii, 320. Pb. $34.95.

Nobuyuki Honna, English as a multicultural language in Asian contexts: Issues and ideas. Tokyo: Kurosio Publishers, 2008. Pp. vi, 182. Pb. ¥3,360.

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Ruqaiya Hasan, Semantic variation: Meaning in society and in sociolinguistics. Jonathan J. Webster (ed.). London: Equinox, 2009. Pp. xi, 484. Hb. $95.

Thomas S. C. Farrell, Reflective language teaching: From research to practice. New York: Continuum, 2007. Pp. iv, 216. Pb. $39.95.

Dennis Baron, A better pencil: Readers, writers, and the digital revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xviii, 259. Hb. $24.95.

Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni & Véronique Traverso (eds.), Les interactions en site commercial: Invariants et variations. Lyon: Ens Éditions, 2008. Pp. iv, 308. Pb. €34.

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