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Volume 27 - March 1998

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Reiko Hayashi, Cognition, empathy, and interaction: Floor management of English and Japanese conversation.(Advances in discourse Processes, 54.) Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1996.

Robin Dunbar, Grooming, gossip, and the evolution of language. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp.230. Hb $22.95.

Michael L. Geis, Speech acts and conversational interaction: Toward a theory of conversational competence. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 248.

Donal Carbaugh, Situating selves: The communication of social identities in American scenes. (Human communication Processes.) Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 238. Pb $19.95.

Anssi Peräkylä, AIDS counselling: Institutional interaction and clinical practice. (Studies in interactional sociolinguistics, 11.) Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xvi, 364. Hb $59.95.

Susan J. Dicker, Languages in America: A pluralist view. (Bilingual education & bilingualism, 10.) Clevedon (UK) & Philadelphia (PA): Multilingual Matters, 1996. pp. xvi, 278. Pb $19.95.

Basil Bernstein, Pedagogy, symbolic control and identity: Theory, research, critique. London (UK) & Bristol (PA): Taylor & Francis, 1996. Pp. xiv, 216. Hb £40.00, Pb £14.95.

Koenraad Kuiper Smooth talkers: The linguistic performance of auctioneers and sportscasters. (Everyday communication: Case studies of behavior in context.) Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1996 Pp. xiv, 110. Hb $29.95, pb $16.50.

Rosina Lippi-Green, English with an accent: Language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States. London & New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. xvii, 286. Hb. $65.00, pb. $18.95.

Paul Bruthiaux, The discourse of classified advertising: Exploring the nature of linguistic simplicity. (Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.) Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1996 Pp. xv, 208. Hb $45.00.

Douglas Biber, Dimensions of register variation: A cross-linguistic comparison. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xvii, 428. Hb $59.95.

Gerald Newton (ed.), Luxembourg and Lëtzebuergesch: Language and communication at the crossroads of Europe. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xviii, 286. Hb $70.00.

Douglas C. Baynton, Forbidden sings: American culture and the campaign against sign language. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 228. Hb $27.50.

Peter Burke and Roy Porter (eds.), Languages and jargons: Contributions to a social history of language. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995. Pp. vii, 216. [Distrib. in the US by Blackwelll; hb $24.95.]

Lisa Capps & Elinor Ochs, Constructing panic: The discourse of agoraphobia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. Pp. xi, 244. Hb $29.95.

Lourdes Torres, Puerto Rican discourse: A sociolinguistic study. (Everyday communication: Case studies of behavior in context.) Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1997. Pp. xx, 138. Hb $32.50, pb $16.95.

Traute Ewers, The origin of American Black English: Be-forms in the HOODOO texts. (Topics in English Linguistics, 15.) Mounton de Gruyter, 1996. Pp. xi, 327. Hb DM 158.00.

Sue Fisher, Nursing Wounds: Nurse Practitioners, doctors, women Patients and the negotiation of meaning. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 259. Hb $42.00, pb $16.00.

Bernard Comrie, Gerald Stone and Maria Polinsky, The Russian language in the 20th century. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 345. Hb $80.00.

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