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Volume 18 - September 1989

Book Review

Tamar Katriel, Talking straight: Dugri speech in Israeli Sabra culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xi + 145.

Martin Kasper (ed.), Language and culture of the Lusatian Sorbs throughout their history. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1987. Pp. 219.

Stephen T. Boggs with Karen Watson-Gegeo and Georgia McMillen, Speaking, relating, and learning: A study of Hawaiian children at home and at school. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1985. Pp. vi + 197.

A. D. Švejcer, Contemporary sociolinguistics: Theory, problems, methods. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1986. Pp. 193. - A. D. Švejcer and L. B. Nikol'skij, Introduction to sociolinguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1986. Pp. xii + 179.

Els Oksaar (ed.), Soziokulturelle Perspektiven von Mehrsprachigkeit und Spracherwerb [Sociocultural perspectives of multilingualism and language acquisition]. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1987. Pp. xi + 325.

Victor H. Yngve, Linguistics as a science. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. Pp. vii + 120.

Elliot G. Mishler. The discourse of medicine: The dialectics of medical interviews. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1984. Pp. xii + 211.

I. T. Kreindler (ed.), Sociolinguistic perspectives on Soviet national languages: Their past, present, and future. The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter, 1985. Pp. 371.

Rachel Reichman, Getting computers to talk like you and me: Discourse context, focus, and semantics (an ATN model). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985. Pp. xiii + 221.

Discourse - Nikolas Coupland (ed.), Styles of discourse. London and New York: Croom Helm, 1988. Pp. ix + 322.

Leo Loveday, Explorations in Japanese sociolinguistics. (Pragmatics & Beyond VII: 1.) Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1986. Pp. xii + 153.

Bert Weltens, Kees de Bot, and Theo van Els (eds.), Language attrition in progress (Studies on Language Acquisition 2). Dordrecht: Foris, 1986. Pp. vi + 224.

Nira Reiss, Speech act taxonomy as a tool for ethnographic description: An analysis based on videotapes of continuous behavior in two New York households. (Pragmatics & Beyond VI:7.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1985. Pp. 153.

Bent Preisler, Linguistic sex roles in conversation: Social variation in the expression of tentativeness in English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1986. Pp. xviii + 347.

Carolyn Steedman, Cathy Urwin, and Valerie Walkerdine (eds.), Language, gender, and childhood (History Workshop Series). Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. Pp. 265.

Brit Mæhlum, Språklige variasjonsmønstre has innflyttere i Oslo [Patterns of linguistic variation among rural immigrants to Oslo]. (Tromsø Studier i Språkvitenskap, 8.) Oslo: Novus Forlag, 1986. Pp. 302.

Educational linguistics - Freda Ahenakew, Cree language structures: A Cree approach. Winnipeg: Pemmican, 1987. Pp. x + 170.

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Sharon Sabsay, Martha Platt , Social setting, stigma, and communicative competence: Explorations of the conversational interactions of retarded adults. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1985. Pp. ii + 137.

Raja Ram Mehrotra, Sociolinguistics in Hindi contexts. (Contributions to the Sociology of Language, 38.) New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1986. Pp. xi + 152.

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