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Volume 15 - September 1986

Book Review

Nessa Wolfson and Elliot Judd (eds.), Sociolinguistics and language acquisition. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1983. Pp. xx + 274.

Axel Hübler, Understatements and hedges in English. (Pragmatics and Beyond IV, 6.) Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins B.V., 1983. Pp. ix + 192.

Discourse - Deborah Tannen, Conversational style: Analyzing talk among friends. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1984. Pp. xix + 188. - Ronald Wardhaugh, How conversation works. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985. Pp. vii + 230.

Deborah Tannen (ed.), Coherence in spoken and written discourse. (Advances in Discourse Processes 12.) Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1984. Pp. xvii + 289.

Laurence Goldman, Talk never dies: The language of Huli disputes. London: Tavistock, 1983. Pp. x + 341.

Phyllis A. Harrison, Behaving Brazilian: A comparison of Brazilian and North American social behavior. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1983. Pp. xvi + 123.

Language Varieties and Situations - Lawrence Carrington (ed.), Studies in Caribbean language. St. Augustine, Trinidad: Society for Caribbean Linguistics, 1983. Pp. xi + 338.

Loreto Todd, Modern Englishes: Pidgins and creoles. Oxford: Basil Blackwell (in association with Andre Deutsch), 1984. Pp. xvi + 286.

Beatriz R. Lavandera, Variación y significado. Buenos Aires: Hachette, 1984. Pp. 267.

Jessica R. Wirth (ed.), Beyond the sentence: Discourse and sentential form. Ann Arbor: Karoma, 1985. Pp. viii + 114.

Literacy - Robert B. Kaplan, Alison d'Anglejan, J Ronayne Cowan, Braj B. Kachru, and G. Richard Tucker (eds.), Annual review of applied linguistics 1983. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1984. Pp. xv + 199.

Ellen Bouchard Ryan and Howard Giles (eds.), Attitudes towards language variation: Social and applied contexts. (Social Psychology of Language, 1.) London: Edward Arnold, 1982. Pp. xiv + 286.

Charles Joyner, Down by the riverside: A South Carolina slave community. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1984. Pp. xxii + 345.

Perspectives and Critical Models - James E. Copeland (ed.), New directions in linguistics and semiotics. Houston: Rice University Studies, 1984. Pp. xi + 269.

Ruth Wodak, Hilflose Nähe? Mütter and Töchter Erzählen (Helplessly close together? Mothers and daughters speak). Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1984. Pp. 253.

Gerald Caplan With Ruth B. Caplan, Arab and Jew in Jerusalem: Explorations in community mental health. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1980. Pp. viii + 300.

John Platt, Heidi Weber, and Ho Mian Lian, The New Englishes. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984. Pp. vii + 225.

Language Varieties and Situations - Juan Cobarrubias and Joshua A. Fishman (eds.), Progress in language planning: International perspectives. (Contributions to the Sociology of Language, 31.) Berlin: Mouton, 1983. Pp. vi + 383.

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