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Volume 20 - December 1991

Book Review

Discourse - Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Juliane House, and Gabriele Kasper (eds.), Cross-cultural pragmatics: Requests and apologies (Advances in Discourse Processes, XXXI). Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1989. Pp. ix + 300.

Directions in Sociolinguistics - G. Drigeard, P. Fiala, and M. Tournier (eds.), Courants sociolinguistiques. Paris: Klincksieck, 1989. Pp. 259.

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Directions in Sociolinguistics - J. K. Lele and R. Singh, Language and society Steps towards an integrated theoryLeiden: E. J. Brill, 1989. Pp. xix + 146.

Regina Harrison Signs, songs, and memory in the Andes: Translating Quechua language and culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989. Pp. xvii + 233.

Directions in Sociolinguistics - John Baldwin and Peter French, Forensic linguistics, London: Pinter, 1990. Pp. 441.

Norman Fairclough, Language and power. London: Longman. 1989 Pp. x + 248.

Carmen Silva-Corvalan, Sociolingüística: Teoría y análisis. Madrid: Alhambra, 1989. Pp. 200.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Communication in everyday life: A social interpretation. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1989. Pp. xxii + 203.

Karol Janicki, Toward non-essentialist sociolinguistics (Contributions to the Sociology of Language, 56). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1990, Pp. 136.

Karol Janicki (ed.), “Sociolinguistics in Poland,” Special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language 78. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1989. Pp. 1 + 116.

Norman Fairclough, Language and power. London and New York: Longman, 1989, Pp. xii + 259.

Ruth Wodak (ed.), Language, power, and ideology; Studies in political discourse (Series in Critical Theory, volume 7). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1989 Pp. xx + 288.

Ferrucio Rossi-Landi, Marxism and ideology. Oxford: Clarendon, 1990. Pp. xx + 364. Trans. by Roger Griffin from Ideologia. Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1982.

Discourse - Deborah Tannen, Talking voices: Repetition, dialogue, and imagery in conversational discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. x + 240.

Categories - Savas L. Tsohatzidis (ed.), Meanings and prototypes: Studies in linguistic categorization. London and New York: Routledge, 1990. Pp. viii + 584.

John Holmes McDowell, Sayings of the ancestors: The spiritual life of the Sibundoy Indians. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989. Pp. x + 206.

Margaret Trawick, Notes on love in a Tamil familyBerkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Pp. xix + 299.

Discourse - Douglas Biber, Variation across speech and writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii + 299.

Language Varieties and Situations - Miklós Kontra (ed.), Beszélt Nyelvi Tanulmányok [Studies of spoken language] (Linguistica Series A, Studia et Dissertaciones, 1). Budapest: Institutum Linguisticum Academiae Scientarum Hungaricae, 1988. Pp 180.

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