Language in Society: Volume 13 - Issue 1

Learning how to ask: Native metacommunicative competence and the incompetence of fieldworkers
Charles L. Briggs
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18 December 2008, pp. 1-28
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Every speech community boasts an array of devices for characterizing communicative events. These native metacommunicative repertoires are culturally patterned in terms of both use and acquisition. Interviews meet with varying degrees of success by virtue of their relative (in-)compatibility with the norms underlying such events. An analysis of the way in which Spanish speakers in rural New Mexico gain metacommunicative competence suggests that native metacommunicative routines provide a rich source of sociolinguistic and social/cultural data and that awareness of these repertoires can assist fieldworkers in using interviews more appropriately and effectively. (Interview techniques, metacommunication, acquisition of sociolinguistic competence, ethnopoetics, New Mexican Spanish)

Revisionist dialectology and mainstream linguistics (Review article)
Yakov Malkiel
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18 December 2008, pp. 29-66
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Some experimental findings about the question of politeness and women's speech (Research note)
Maria Rosa Baroni, Valentina D'urso
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18 December 2008, pp. 67-72
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A particular factor in linguistic variation which has often been connected to female speech is politeness, as first described by Lakoff (1973a, 1973b), manifested not only by means of intonation, but also through the use of particular formulae of courtesy, through the use of tag questions at the end of interrogatives, and the use of longer, less direct and peremptory sentences.

Sociolinguistics: An international handbook of the science of language and society (Project announcement)
Ulrich Ammon, Norbert Dittmar, Klaus J. Mattheier
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18 December 2008, pp. 73-80
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Dimensions of Sociolinguistics - Robert L. Cooper (ed.), Language spread. Studies in diffusion and social change. Bloomington: Indiana University Press and Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1982. Pp. vii + 360.
Jane H. Hill
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18 December 2008, pp. 81-87
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Charles R. Berger and James J. Bradac, Language and social knowledge: Uncertainty in interpersonal relations. London: Edward Arnold, 1982. Pp. viii + 151.
Jack Bilmes
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18 December 2008, pp. 87-90
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Thelma McCormack (ed.), Culture, code, and content analyses. (Studies in Communications: A Research Annual, Vol. 2). Greenwich, Conn. and London: JAI Press Inc., 1982. Pp. x + 192.
Allen D. Grimshaw
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18 December 2008, pp. 90-93
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Languages and Language Varieties - Philip Baker and Chris Corne, Isle de France Creole: Affinities and origins. Ann Arbor: Karoma, 1982. Pp. viii + 299.
Sarah Grey Thomason
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18 December 2008, pp. 94-99
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Philip Baker and Chris Corne, Isle de France Creole: Affinities and origins. Ann Arbor: Karoma, 1982. Pp. viii + 299.
John Holm
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18 December 2008, pp. 99-102
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Richard P. Duran (ed.), Latino language and communicative behavior. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1981. Pp. xiv + 363.
Gabriela Coronado
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18 December 2008, pp. 102-104
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Sjef Stijnen and Ton Vallen, Dialect als onderwijsprobleem. (Stichting voor Onderzoek van het Onderwijs 50.) Gravenhage, The Netherlands: Staatsuitgeverij's, 1981. Pp. 324.
Dorian de Haan
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18 December 2008, pp. 104-108
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Language and Music - Steven Feld, Sound and sentiment: Birds, weeping, poetics, and song in Kaluli expression. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. Pp. xiii + 264.
Roy Wagner
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18 December 2008, pp. 108-113
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Duncan B. Gardiner, Intonation and music: The semantics of Czech prosody. (Physsardt Series in Prague Linguistics, 2.) Bloomington, Ind.: Physsardt, 1980, Pp. xvi + 131.
František Daneš
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18 December 2008, pp. 113-117
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Discourse - Nessa Wolfson, CHP: The conversational historical present in American English narrative. Dordrecht: Foris, 1982. Pp. 126.
Suzanne Romaine
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18 December 2008, pp. 117-123
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Theoretical Approaches - Harvey Sarles, After metaphysics: Toward a grammar of interaction and discourse. (Studies in Semiotics, 13; Thomas A. Sebeok, ed.) Lisse, Belgium: Peter de Ridder, 1977. Pp. 286.
William Stokoe
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18 December 2008, pp. 123-126
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18 December 2008, pp. 127-143
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LSY volume 13 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
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Volume 13 - Issue 1 - March 1984

Articles

Learning how to ask: Native metacommunicative competence and the incompetence of fieldworkers

Review Article

Revisionist dialectology and mainstream linguistics (Review article)

Articles

Some experimental findings about the question of politeness and women's speech (Research note)

Announcement

Sociolinguistics: An international handbook of the science of language and society (Project announcement)

Book Review

Dimensions of Sociolinguistics - Robert L. Cooper (ed.), Language spread. Studies in diffusion and social change. Bloomington: Indiana University Press and Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1982. Pp. vii + 360.

Charles R. Berger and James J. Bradac, Language and social knowledge: Uncertainty in interpersonal relations. London: Edward Arnold, 1982. Pp. viii + 151.

Thelma McCormack (ed.), Culture, code, and content analyses. (Studies in Communications: A Research Annual, Vol. 2). Greenwich, Conn. and London: JAI Press Inc., 1982. Pp. x + 192.

Languages and Language Varieties - Philip Baker and Chris Corne, Isle de France Creole: Affinities and origins. Ann Arbor: Karoma, 1982. Pp. viii + 299.

Philip Baker and Chris Corne, Isle de France Creole: Affinities and origins. Ann Arbor: Karoma, 1982. Pp. viii + 299.

Richard P. Duran (ed.), Latino language and communicative behavior. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1981. Pp. xiv + 363.

Sjef Stijnen and Ton Vallen, Dialect als onderwijsprobleem. (Stichting voor Onderzoek van het Onderwijs 50.) Gravenhage, The Netherlands: Staatsuitgeverij's, 1981. Pp. 324.

Language and Music - Steven Feld, Sound and sentiment: Birds, weeping, poetics, and song in Kaluli expression. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. Pp. xiii + 264.

Duncan B. Gardiner, Intonation and music: The semantics of Czech prosody. (Physsardt Series in Prague Linguistics, 2.) Bloomington, Ind.: Physsardt, 1980, Pp. xvi + 131.

Discourse - Nessa Wolfson, CHP: The conversational historical present in American English narrative. Dordrecht: Foris, 1982. Pp. 126.

Theoretical Approaches - Harvey Sarles, After metaphysics: Toward a grammar of interaction and discourse. (Studies in Semiotics, 13; Thomas A. Sebeok, ed.) Lisse, Belgium: Peter de Ridder, 1977. Pp. 286.

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