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Diana Eades, Sociolinguistics and the legal process. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2010. Pp. xv, 303. Pb. $35.04.
Susan Berk-Seligson
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23 January 2012, pp. 123-126
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Peter Trudgill, Investigations in sociohistorical linguistics: Stories of colonisation and contact. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv, 218. Hb. $106, Pb. $31.
Östen Dahl
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23 May 2012, pp. 393-396
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Raymond Hickey (ed.), The handbook of language contact. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Pp. xviii, 863. Hb. $199.95.
Ana Deumert
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23 August 2012, pp. 527-530
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Where the action isn't
Michael Lempert
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23 March 2012, pp. 259-266
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Enfield's The anatomy of meaning is a pathbreaking exploration of multimodal communication based on Lao video recordings and fieldwork. Of special interest is his notion of composites, through which he addresses the question of cross-modal integration—how it is that signs in different modalities cohere, speech and gesture being his focus. For whom, to what degree, and through what means do composites coalesce? Does this notion denote a kind of cross-modal orderliness or the achievement of orderliness—perhaps through heuristics and inference-making? As I detail the book's engagement with this issue and compare it with others—especially recent discussions of “textuality” in linguistic anthropology and older structuralist approaches to behavioral events—I suggest that Enfield's notion is best viewed as a methodological operator. It is a notion that performs a kind of methodological displacement, pushing against an entrenched logocentrism while spurring us to view communicative events as multiplex, cross-modal assemblages. (Multi-modal, cross-modal, gesture, interaction, video, Lao)

Warren Maguire & April McMahon (eds.), Analysing variation in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xiii, 332. Hb. $99.
Matthew J. Gordon
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02 November 2012, pp. 671-673
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Bernard Bate, Tamil oratory and the Dravidian aesthetic: Democratic practice in South India. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. 263. Hb. $50.
Jennifer Jackson
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23 May 2012, pp. 396-400
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Paul Baker, Sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. ix, 189. Pb. $24.50.
Mercedes Durham
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23 January 2012, pp. 127-130
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Ruth Wodak, The discourse of politics in action: Politics as usual. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. Pp. xvii, 240. Pb $32.
Adam Hodges
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23 August 2012, pp. 530-533
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Svenja Völkel, Social structure, space and possession in Tongan culture and language. (Culture and language use: Studies in anthropological linguistics 2.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010. Pp. vx, 272. Hb. $143.
Jason D. Haugen
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23 March 2012, pp. 267-270
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Paul Kockelman, Language, culture, and mind: Natural constructions and social kinds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. ix, 246. Hb. $106.
N. J. Enfield
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02 November 2012, pp. 674-677
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Yasir Suleiman, Arabic, self and identity: A study in conflict and displacement. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 288. Pb. $39.95.
Reem Bassiouney
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23 August 2012, pp. 534-537
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Jürgen Streeck, Charles Goodwin & Curtis LeBaron (eds.), Embodied interaction: Language and body in the material world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xii, 308. Hb. $99.
Galina B. Bolden
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02 November 2012, pp. 678-681
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Susana Rivera-Mills & Daniel Villa (eds.), Spanish of the U.S. Southwest: A language in transition. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2010. Pp. vii, 378. Pb. $48.
Maryellen Garcia
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23 May 2012, pp. 401-402
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Adam Jaworski & Crispin Thurlow (eds.), Semiotic landscapes: Language, image, space. London: Continuum, 2010. Pp. ix, 314. Hb. $160.
Durk Gorter
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23 January 2012, pp. 130-133
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Colleen Cotter, News talk: Investigating the language of journalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xi, 294. Pb. $35.
Tom Van Hout
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23 March 2012, pp. 270-272
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Monica Heller, Paths to post-nationalism: A critical ethnography of language and identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. X, 223. Hb. $99, Pb. $39.95.
John E. Joseph
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23 August 2012, pp. 537-540
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John Edwards, Minority languages and group identity: Cases and categories. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010. Pp. vii, 231. Hb. $149.
Thomas Ricento
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23 January 2012, pp. 134-137
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Nikolas Coupland (ed.), The handbook of language and globalization. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Pp. ix, 662. Hb. $204.95.
Jamie Shinhee Lee
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02 November 2012, pp. 681-685
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James Paul Gee, An introduction to discourse analysis: Theory and method. 3rd edn. New York: Routledge, 2011. Pp. vi, 218. Pb. $39.95.
Junfeng Jiao
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23 May 2012, pp. 402-403
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Nicholas Evans, Dying words: Endangered languages and what they have to tell us. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Pp. xxii, 287. Pb. $34.95.
John Edwards
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23 March 2012, pp. 273-274
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Diana Eades, Sociolinguistics and the legal process. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2010. Pp. xv, 303. Pb. $35.04.

Peter Trudgill, Investigations in sociohistorical linguistics: Stories of colonisation and contact. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv, 218. Hb. $106, Pb. $31.

Raymond Hickey (ed.), The handbook of language contact. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Pp. xviii, 863. Hb. $199.95.

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Where the action isn't

Book Reviews

Warren Maguire & April McMahon (eds.), Analysing variation in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xiii, 332. Hb. $99.

Bernard Bate, Tamil oratory and the Dravidian aesthetic: Democratic practice in South India. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. 263. Hb. $50.

Paul Baker, Sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Pp. ix, 189. Pb. $24.50.

Ruth Wodak, The discourse of politics in action: Politics as usual. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. Pp. xvii, 240. Pb $32.

Svenja Völkel, Social structure, space and possession in Tongan culture and language. (Culture and language use: Studies in anthropological linguistics 2.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010. Pp. vx, 272. Hb. $143.

Paul Kockelman, Language, culture, and mind: Natural constructions and social kinds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. ix, 246. Hb. $106.

Yasir Suleiman, Arabic, self and identity: A study in conflict and displacement. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 288. Pb. $39.95.

Jürgen Streeck, Charles Goodwin & Curtis LeBaron (eds.), Embodied interaction: Language and body in the material world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xii, 308. Hb. $99.

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Susana Rivera-Mills & Daniel Villa (eds.), Spanish of the U.S. Southwest: A language in transition. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2010. Pp. vii, 378. Pb. $48.

Book Reviews

Adam Jaworski & Crispin Thurlow (eds.), Semiotic landscapes: Language, image, space. London: Continuum, 2010. Pp. ix, 314. Hb. $160.

Colleen Cotter, News talk: Investigating the language of journalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xi, 294. Pb. $35.

Monica Heller, Paths to post-nationalism: A critical ethnography of language and identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. X, 223. Hb. $99, Pb. $39.95.

John Edwards, Minority languages and group identity: Cases and categories. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010. Pp. vii, 231. Hb. $149.

Nikolas Coupland (ed.), The handbook of language and globalization. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Pp. ix, 662. Hb. $204.95.

Book Notes

James Paul Gee, An introduction to discourse analysis: Theory and method. 3rd edn. New York: Routledge, 2011. Pp. vi, 218. Pb. $39.95.

Nicholas Evans, Dying words: Endangered languages and what they have to tell us. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Pp. xxii, 287. Pb. $34.95.

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