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Volume 19 - December 1990

Book Review

Directions in Sociolinguistics - Jennifer Coates and Deborah Cameron (eds.), Women in their speech communitiesLondon and New York: Longman, 1988. Pp. viii + 191.

George W. Grace, The linguistic construction of reality. London: Croom Helm, 1987. Pp. 152.

John R. Rickford, Dimensions of a creole continuum: History, texts, and linguistic analysis of Guyanese Creole. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. Pp. xix + 340.

Einar Haugen, Blessings of Babel: Bilingualism and language planning, problems, and pleasures (Contributions to the Sociology of Language 46). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1987. Pp. xi + 176.

Nancy C. Dorian (ed.), Investigating obsolescence: Studies in language contraction and death (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language 7). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xiii + 445.

J. Joseph Errington, Structure and style in Javanese: A semiotic view of linguistic etiquette. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. Pp. xvi + 290.

Peter Trudgill, Dialects in contact (Language in Society 10). Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986. Pp. viii + 174.

Elinor Ochs, Culture and language development: Language acquisition and language socialization in a Samoan village (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language 6). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xvii + 255.

Gabrielle Varro, The transplanted woman: A study of French-American marriages in France. New York: Praeger, 1988. Pp. xix + 243.

William C. Hall, Aspects of Western Subanon formal speech. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington, 1987. Pp. xii + 191.

Michael Moerman, Talking culture: Ethnography and conversation analysis (University of Pennsylvania Publications in Conduct and Communication). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Pp. xiii + 212.

Harvey J. Graff, The legacies of literacy: Continuities and contradictions in Western culture and society. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. Pp. vii + 493.

Language Situations - Edith Algren De Gutiérrez, The movement against teaching English in schools of Puerto Rico. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987. Pp. ix + 165.

Suzanne Romaine, Bilingualism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Pp. 337.

Joshua A. Fishman, Language and ethnicity in minority sociolinguistic perspective. Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, 1989. Pp. x + 717.

Deborah Tannen (ed.), Linguistics in context: Connecting observation and understanding. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1988. Pp. xvii + 320.

C. A. Bowers, The cultural dimensions of educational computing. New York: Teachers College Press, 1988. Pp. x + 152.

Joel Sherzer and Anthony C. Woodbury (eds.), Native American discourse: Poetics and rhetoric. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. x + 246.

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