Abstract: | Books reviewed in this article: Penelope Eckert and John R. Rickford (eds.), Style and Sociolinguistic Variation Richard Watts and Peter Trudgill (eds), Alternative Histories of English Shana Poplack (ed.), The English History of African American English Urszula Clark, War Words: Language, History and the Disciplining of English Beverley A. Lewin, Jonathan Fine and Lynne Young, Expository Discourse: A Genre–based Approach to Social Science Research Texts Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Marianna Spanaki (eds.), A Reader in Greek Sociolinguistics – Studies in Modern Greek Language, Culture and Communication Maya Khemlani David, The Sindhis of Malaysia: A Sociolinguistic Study Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen, Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication |