Abstract: | Books reviewed Tannen, Deborah. The Argument Culture: Changing the Way We Argue and Debate . Adger, Carolyn Temple; Christian, Donna; Taylor, Orlando (eds.) Making the Connection: Language and Academic Achievement among African American Students . Shuy, Roger W. The Language of Confession, Interrogation, and Deception . Hutchby, Ian and Wooffitt, Robin. Conversation Analysis . Ainsworth-Vaughn, Nancy. Claiming Power in Doctor-Patient Talk . Eco, Umberto. Serendipities: Language and Lunacy . Beal, Joan. English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Spence's 'Grand Repository of the English Language' . Habermas, Jürgen. On the Pragmatics of Communication . |