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Volume 19 - December 1990

Book Review

Graham McGregor (ed.), Language for hearers (Language and Communication Library Volume 8). Oxford: Pergamon, 1986. Pp. xx + 187. - Graham McGregor and Robert S. White (eds.), The art of listening. London: Croom Helm, 1986. Pp. v + 220.

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H. Coleman (ed.), Working with language: A multidisciplinary consideration of language use in work contexts (Contributions to the Sociology of Language 52). Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1989. Pp. xii + 617.

Social-historical approaches - Peter Burke and Roy Porter (eds.) The social history of language (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture 12.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. 219.

Jan Ragnar Hagland, Riksstyring og språknorm [Government and language norm]. Oslo: Novus Forlag, 1986. Pp. 260.

Monica Heller (ed.), Codeswitching: Anthropological and sociolinguistic perspectives (Contributions to the Sociology of Language 48). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1988. Pp. 278.

Alexandra Dundas Todd, Intimate adversaries: Cultural conflict between doctors and women patients. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. Pp. 167.

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Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra, Establishing agreement: An analysis of proposal-acceptance sequences. Dordrecht and Providence: Foris, 1987. Pp. 228.

Charles L. Briggs, Competence in performance: The creativity of tradition in Mexicano verbal art. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. Pp. xix + 427.

Bernard Lewis, The political language of Islam. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp. 168.

Michael Issacharoff, Discourse as performance. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989. Pp. vii + 161.

Genevieve Calame-Griaule, Words and the Dogon world. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1986. Pp. xix + 704.

Colin Renfrew, Archaeology and language: The puzzle of Indo-European origins. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xiv + 346.

Livia Polanyi, Telling the American story: A structural and cultural analysis of conversational storytelling. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989. Pp. x + 215.

Paul Hockings, Council from the ancients: A study of Badaga proverbs, prayers, omens, and curses. With an outline of the Badaga language by C. Pilot-Raichoor (Trends in Linguistics: Documentation 4). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1988. Pp. xiv + 796.

Jeff Todd Titon, Powerhouse for God: Speech, chant, and song in an Appalachian Baptist church. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988. Pp. viii + 523.

Body and language - Robin Allott, The motor theory of language origin. Lewes, England: The Book Guild, 1989. Pp. 109.

Dina Sherzer and Joel Sherzer (eds.), Humor and comedy in puppetry. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University, Popular Press, 1987. Pp 151.

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