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Volume 7 - April 1978

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C. F. Hockett, The view from language: Selected essays 1948–1974. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1977. Pp. 338.

Speech Play - R. R. Mehrotra. Sociology of secret language. Simla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1977. Pp. vii+103.

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Speech play: research and resources for studying linguistic creativity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976. pp. 307.

Educational Linguistics - James E. Alatis and Kristie Twaddell (eds), English as a second language in bilingual education. Washington, D.C.: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, 1976, pp. xi+360.

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F. Abel, Le mouvement occitaniste contemporain. Tubingen: Gunter Narr, 1973. Pp. 105.

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Heinrich Walter Schmitz. Ethnographie der Kommunikation. Kommunikationsbegriff und Ansätze zur Erforschung von Kommunikationsphänomenen in der Völkerkunde. Forschungsberichte des Instituts fur Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik der Universität Bonn; Band 49. Hamburg1975: Helmut Buske Verlag.

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Gillian Fenn, The development of syntax in a group of educationally severely subnormal children. University of Exeter, 1977

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Ninth World Congress of Sociology Uppsala, Sweden, 14–20 August 1978

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Philip Howard, New words for old: a survey of misused, vogue and cliché words. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp xv+127.

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Thomas S. Kuhn, The essential tension. Selected studies in scientific tradition and change. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1978. Pp. xxiii+ 366.

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Raymond Williams, Marxism and literature (Oxford Paperbacks 382). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. 217.

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