Book Reviews

Gregory Guy, Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh (eds.). Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in Honor of William Labov .
Anna Duszak. Culture and Styles of Academic Discourse .
Barbara Johnstone. The Linguistic Individual: Self-expression in Language and Linguistics .
Alessandro Duranti. Linguistic Anthropology . William A. Foley. Anthropological Linguistics: An Introduction .     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Agriculture and Development: Albrecht , Don E., and Steve M. Murdock . The Sociology of U.S. Agriculture: An Ecological Perspective. Agriculture and Development: Hallberg , M. C, Jill L. Findeis , and Daniel A. Lass (eds.). Multiple Job-Holding Among Farm Families. Agriculture and Development: Eicher , Carl K., and John M. Staatz (eds.). Agricultural Development in the Third World. Agriculture and Development: Adams , Dale W., and Delbert A. Fitchett (eds.). Informal Finance in Low-Income Countries. Community and Work: Oldenquist , Andrew, and Menachem Rosner (eds.). Community and Work: Fugita , Stephen S., and David J. O'Brien . Japanese American Ethnicity: The Persistence of Community. Community and Work: Colclough , Glenna, and Charles M. Tolbert II. Work in the Fast Lane: Flexibilities, Division of Labor, and Inequality in High Tech Industries. Community and Work: Kemmis , Daniel . Community and the Politics of Place. Community and Work: Murdock , Steve H., and David R. Ellis . Applied Demography: An Introduction to Basic Concepts, Methods, and Data. Community and Work: South , Scott J., and Stewart E. Tolnay (eds.). The Changing American Family: Sociological and Demographic Perspectives. Community and Work: Goodman , David, and Michael Redclift . Refashioning Nature: Food, Ecology and Culture. Machlis , Gary E., and Donald R. Field (eds.). On Interpretation: Sociology for Interpreters of Natural and Cultural History. Community and Work: Mason , Robert J. Contested Lands: Conflict and Compromise in New Jersey's Pine Barrens. Community and Work: Hallberg , Milton C. (ed.). Bovine Somatotropin and Emerging Issues: An Assessment.     

What is a ‘Handbook of Sociolinguistics’?

Florian Coulmas (ed.). The Handbook of Sociolinguistics (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics, 4). Oxford: Blackwell. 1997. x + 532 pp.Cloth (0–631–19339–1) £70.00.     

Review Articles: Introduction

Florian Coulmas (ed.). The Handbook of Sociolinguistics (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics, 4). Oxford: Blackwell. 1997. x + 532 pp.Cloth (0–631–19339–1) £#187;70.00.     

Some 'fractious energy'

Florian Coulmas (ed.). The Handbook of Sociolinguistics (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics, 4). Oxford: Blackwell. 1997. x + 532 pp. Cloth (0–631–19339–1) £70.00.     

Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
ROGER BASTIDE. The African Religions of Brazil. Translated by H. Sebba.
STANLEY R. BARRETT. The Rise and Fall of an African Utopia: A Wealthy Theocracy in Comparative Perspective.
ELIZABETH M. EDDY and WILLIAM L. PARTRIDGE (eds.). Applied Anthropology in America.
HAROLD W. SCHEFFLER. Australian Kin Classification.
EVA HUNT. The Transformation of the Hummingbird: Cultural Roots of a Zinacantecan Mythical Poem.
RICHARD SLOBODIN. W.H.R. Rivers.
HAROLD CARDINAL. The Rebirth of Canada's Indians
ROBERT PAINE (ed.). The White Arctic: Anthropological Essays on Tutelage and Ethnicity.
S.D. CLARK. The New Urban Poor.
DORIS R. ENTWISLE and LESLIE ALEC HAYDUCK. Too Great Expectations: The Academic Outlook of Young Children.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Kay McCormick. Language in Cape Town's District Six
Sinfree Makoni, Geneva Smitherman, Arnetha F. Balland Arthur K. Spears(eds.). Black Linguistics: Language, Society, and Politics in Africa and the Americas
Glyn Williamsand Delyth Morris. Language Planning and Language Use: Welsh in a Global Age
Pierre Larrivée(ed.). Linguistic Conflict and Language Laws: Understanding Language Laws
Dennis Ager. Ideology and Image: Britain and Language
Iingrid Piller. Bilingual Couples Talk: The Discursive Construction of Hybridity
Rob Penhallurick. Studying the English Language
Eleanor Dickey. Latin Forms of Address From Plautus to Apuleius
Viveka Velupillai. Hawai'i Creole English: A Typological Analysis of the Tense–Mood–Aspect System
Anna Duszak(ed.). Us and Others
Kenneth Cragg. Faiths in Their Pronouns: Websites of Identity     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Rural Labor: Kassab , Cathy . Income and Inequality: The Role of the Service Sector in the Changing Distribution of Income. Rural Labor: Singelmann , Joachim, and Forrest A. Deseran (eds.). Rural Labor: Linder , Marc . Migrant Workers and Minimum Wages: Regulating the Exploitation of Agricultural Labor in the United States. Rural Development: Lyson , Thomas, and William W. Falk (eds.). Forgotten Places: Uneven Development in Rural America. Rural Development: Brown , David L., Donald R. Field, and James J. Zuiches (eds.). Rural Development: Bodenstedt , A. Andreas , Stephan Merl, and Vladimir A. Nutrikhin (eds.). Rural Development: Bowler , I. R., C. R. Bryant, and M. D. Nellis (eds.). Contemporary Rural Systems in Transition: Volume 2. Economy and Society. Agriculture and Development: Bartra , Roger . Agrarian Structure and Political Power in Mexico Agriculture and Development: Park , Thomas K. (ed.). Risk and Tenure in Arid Lands: The Political Ecology of Development in the Senegal River Basin. Community: Lockyer Allan . Clamdiggers and Downeast Country Stores. Community: Gray , Ian . Politics in Place: Social Power Relations in an Australian Country Town. Community: Rapport , Nigel . Diverse World-Views in an English Village.     

Book reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Sociological Theory in Transition, Mark L. Wardell and Stephen P. Turner (eds) The Category of Person, M. Carrithers, S. Collins and S. Lukes (eds) Social Relations and Spatial Structures, Derek Gregory and John Urry (eds) Nicos Poulantzas Marxist Theory and Political Strategy, Bob Jessop The View from Afar, Claude Lévi-Strauss New Approaches to Economic Life, Bryan Roberts, Ruth Finnegan and Duncan Gallie (eds) Cities in Crisis: the political economy of urban development in postwar Britain, Gareth Rees and John Lambert The Politics of Recession, R.W. Johnson Landscapes of Poverty, Jeremy Seabrook The Decline of Class Voting in Britain: Changes in the Basis of Electoral Choice, 1964–1983, Mark N. Franklin How Britain Votes, Anthony Heath, Roger Jowell and John Curtice Skilled Workers In the Class Structure, Roger Penn Managing the Police: Law, Organisation and Democracy, David Bradley, Neil Walker and Roy Wilkie Teachers' Work, R.W. Connell Sociology and School Knowledge: Curriculum theory, research and politics, Geoff Whitty Literacy in theory and practice, Brian V. Street Literacy, Language and Learning, David R. Olson, Nancy Torrance and Angela Hildyard (eds) Urban Rhythms: Pop Music and Popular Culture, Iain Chambers Painting, Language and Modernity, Michael Phillipson Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion: Its dubious impact on American society, Michael Schudson, 1985 The Childless Marriage: an exploratory study of couples who do not want children, Elaine Campbell Sexuality and its Discontents: Meanings, myths and modern sexualities, Jeffrey Weeks     

Book Reviews

Honey, John. Language is Power: The Story of Standard English and its Enemies .
Ó Snodaigh, Pádraig. Hidden Ulster: Protestants and the Irish Language .
Edwards, Derek. Discourse and Cognition .
Blaney, Roger. Presbyterians and the Irish Language .
Traill, Anthony. Extinct South African Languages Compact disk plus booklet
Kasper, Gabriele, and Kellerman, Eric (eds.). Communication Strategies: Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives .     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Womanpower: Managing in Times of Demographic Turbulence by Uma Sekaran and Frederick T.L. Leong. (eds.). Defining Women: Social Institutions and Gender Divisions by Linda McDowell and Rosemary Pringle (eds.). Inventing Women: Science, Technology and Gender by Gill Kirkup and Laurie Smith Keller (eds.). Dual-Earner Families: International Perspectives by Suzan Lewis, Dafna Izraeli, and Helen Hootsmans (eds.).     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: International Development: Mestrovic , Stjepan G., with Miroslav Goreta, and Slaven Letica. The Road from Paradise: Prospects for Democracy in Eastern Europe. International Development: Presley , Cora Ann . Kikuyu Women, the Mau Mau Rebellion, and Social Change in Kenya. International Development: Ekins , Paul . A New World Order. International Development: Bernstein , Henry , Ben Crow , and Hazel Johnson (eds.). Rural Livelihoods: Crises and Responses. International Development: Cancian , Frank . The Decline of Community in Zinacantán. International Development: Lewis , Suzanne Grant , and Joel Samoff (eds.). Microcomputers in African Development: Critical Perspectives. Sociology of Agriculture: Bonanno , Alessandro (ed.). The Agricultural and Food Sector in the New Global Era. Sociology of Agriculture: Tweeten , Luther , Cynthia L. Dishon , Wen S. Chern , Naraomi Imamura , and Masaru Morishima (eds.). Japanese and American Agriculture: Tradition and Progress in Conflict. Sociology of Agriculture: Hamlin , Christopher , and Philip T. Shepard . Deep Disagreement in U.S. Agriculture: Making Sense of Policy Conflict. Sociology of Agriculture: Bowler , I. R., C. R. Bryant , and M. D. Nellis (eds.). Contemporary Rural Systems in Transition (vol. 1): Agriculture and Environment. Sociology of Agriculture: Fliegel , Frederick C. Diffusion Research in Rural Sociology: The Record and Prospects for the Future. Sociology of Agriculture: Goreham , Gary A., David L. Watt , and Roy M. Jacobsen (eds.). Sociology of Agriculture: Attebery , Louie W. Sheep May Safely Graze: A Personal Essay on Tradition and a Contemporary Sheep Ranch.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed
Wolfram, Walt and Schilling-Estes, Natalie. American English
Yamada, Haru. Different Games, Different Rules: Why Americans and Japanese Misunderstand Each Other .
Singh, Rajendra. Lectures against Sociolinguistics .
Harvey, Keith and Shalom, Celia (eds.). Language and Desire: Encoding Sex, Romance and Intimacy .     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Environmental Sociology: Kroll -Smith , J. Stephen , and Stephen Robert Couch . The Real Disaster Is Above Ground: A Mine Fire and Social Conflict. Environmental Sociology: Couch , Stephen R., and J. Steven Kroll -Smith (eds.). Environmental Sociology: Dunlap , Riley E., and Angela G. Mertig (eds.). Environmental Sociology: Faber , Daniel . Environment Under Fire: Imperialism and the Ecological Crisis in Central America. Agriculture: Browne , William P., Jerry R. Skees , Louis E. Swanson , Paul B. Thompson , and Laurian J. Unnevehr . Sacred Cows and Hot Potatoes: Agrarian Myths in Agricultural Policy. Agriculture: Maret , Elizabeth . Women of the Range: Women's Roles in the Texas Beef Cattle Industry. Agriculture: Dvorak , Karen Ann (ed.). Social Science Research for Agricultural Technology Development: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions. Chinese Studies: Kelliher , Daniel . Peasant Power in China: The Era of Rural Reform, 1979–1989. Chinese Studies: Poston , Dudley L., and David Yaukey (eds.). Rural Health: Snow , Loudell . Walkin' Over Medicine. Rural Health: Morsy , Soheir A. Gender, Sickness, and Healing in Rural Egypt: Ethnography in Historical Context.     

Book Reviews

Cameron, Deborah Verbal hygiene
Eco, Umberto The search for the perfect language
Caldas-Coulthard, Carmen Rosa and Coulthard, Malcom (eds) Texts and practices: Readings in critical discourse analysis
Peräkylä, Anssi, Aids counselling: Institutional interaction and clinical practice
Williams, Colin H. Called unto liberty: On language and nationalism
Besnier, Niko Literacy, emotion and authority: Reading and writing on a Polynesian atoll
Firth, Alan (ed.) The discourse of negotiation: Studies of language in the workplace
Holmes, Janet Women, men and politeness
Aitchison, John and Carter, Harold A Geography of the Welsh language 1961–1991 .
Williams, Rhian Huws, Williams, Hywel and Davies, Elaine (eds) Gwaith Cymdeithasol a'r Iaith Gymraeg/Social work and the Welsh language     

Deconstructing 'Feminist Linguistics'

Victoria L. Bergvall, Janet M. Bing and Alice F. Freed (eds.). Rethinking Language and Gender Research: Theory and Practice .
Jennifer Coates. Women Talk: Conversation between Women Friends .
Mary Crawford. Talking Difference: On Gender and Language .
Kira Hall and Mary Bucholtz (eds.). Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self .
Sally Johnson and Ulrike Hanna Meinhof (eds.). Language and Masculinity .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this articles: The Readable Maths and Statistics Book, by Barry Edwards. An Introduction too Data Analysis, by Bruce D. Bowen & Herbert F. Weisberg The Sociology of Youth Culture and Youth Subcultures by Mike Brake. Law and Society: Readings in the Sociology of Law by Colin Campbell and Paul Wiles (eds.). The State, the Family and Education by Miriam E. David. The Sociology of Women: an introduction by Sara Delamont. Attitudes to Class in the English Novel, from Walter Scott to David Storey by Mary Eagleton and David Pierce. Classifications in Their Social Context by Roy F. Ellen and David Reason (eds.). Symbolic Classification by Rodney Needham. Sociology: Its Nature, Scope and Elements by Ronald Fletcher Sociology: The Study of Social Systems by Ronald Fletcher. The Making of Post-Christian Britain: A history of the secularization of modern society by Alan D. Gilbert. The Literacy Myth. Literacy and Social Structure in the Nineteenth-Century City by Harvey J. Graff. Gender and Class Consciousness by Pauline Hunt. Historical Research on Social Mobility: Western Europe and the USA in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, by Hartmut Kaelble. The Village and the State: Administration, Ethnicity and Politics in an Israeli Co-operative Village by Leonard Mars. The Breaking of the Image by David Martin A Christian Social Perspective by Alan Storkey Theories of Trade Unionism. A sociology of industrial relations by Michael Poole. The Ceremonial Order of the Clinic. Parents, Doctors and Medical Bureaucracies by P. M. Strong. The Social Production of Art by Janet Wolff. Culture by Raymond Williams.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed
Auer, P. (ed.) Code-Switching in Conversation: Language, Interaction and Identity
Malone, Martin J. Worlds of Talk: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Conversation
Diamond, Julie. Status and Power in Verbal Interaction: A Study of Discourse in a Close-Knit Social Network
Roca, Ana and Jensen, John B. (eds.). Spanish in Contact: Issues in Bilingualism
Shaul, David L. and Furbee, N. Louanna. Language and Culture
Kotthoff, Helga and Wodak, Ruth (eds.). Communicating Gender in Context
Wodak, Ruth (ed.). Gender and Discourse
Cheshire, Jenny and Stein, Dieter (eds.). Taming the Vernacular: From Dialect to Written Standard Language     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed
Romaine, Suzanne. Communicating Gender
Chouliaraki, Lilie and Fairclough, Norman. Discourse in Late Modernity: Rethinking Critical Discourse Analysis
Fishman, Joshua A. (ed.). Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity
Kontra, Miklo´s; Phillipson, Robert; Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove and Va´rady, Tibor (eds.). Language: A Right and a Resource. Approaches to Linguistic Human Rights
Foulkes, Paul and Docherty, Gerard (eds.). Urban Voices. Accent Studies in the British Isles
Baron, Naomi S. Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this articles: Pashukanis: Selected Writings on Marxism and the Law by Piers Beirne and Robert Sharlet (eds.) Hierarchy and Society: Anthropological Perspectives on Bureaucracy by Gerald M. Britan and Ronald Cohen (eds.). The Western Isles Today by Judith Ennew. Access to Power. Cross-National Studies of Women and Elites by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Rose Laub Coser (eds.). Making the News by Peter Golding and Philip Elliott. The History of Myddle by Richard Gough, ed. Peter Razzell. The History of Myddle by Richard Gough, ed. David Hey. Social Darwinism and English Thought, by Greta Jones. Darwinian Impacts, by D. R. Oldroyd. White-Collar proletariat: The Industrial Behaviour of British Civil Servants, by Michael P. Kelly, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Henley Language, Ethnicity, and Education in Wales by Bud B. Khlief. White Collar Workers in America 1890-1940: A Social-Political History in International Perspective by Jürgen Kocka The Sociology of Literature: Applied Studies, Sociological Review Monograph 26, Edited by Diana Laurenson The Institutions of France Under The Absolute Monarchy 1578-1789 by R. Mousnier. Les Institutions de la France Sous La Monarchie Absolue Vol. 2. Les Organes de létat et la société. Die Herrschaft des Geselzes by Franz Neumann, Suhrkamp Verlag Class Conflict and Sectarianism, The Protestant Working Class and the Belfast Labour Movement, 1868-1920. by Henry Patterson Theories of Underdevelopment by Ian Roxborough The Transition from Capitalism to Socialism by J. D. Stephens Drinking and Alcoholism in Australia: A Power Relations Theory by Margaret Sargent. The State in Western Europe by Richard Scase (ed.) Knowledge, Ideology and the Politics of Schooling Towards a Marxist Analysis of Education by Rachel Sharp. Salvation and Protest by Roy Wallis