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

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/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: DAVID C. PITT (ed.). Development From Below: Anthropologists and Development Situations WILLIAMC. MCCORMACK and STEPHEN A. WURM (eds.). Language and Man: Anthropological Issues. AGEHANANDA BHARATI (ed.). The Realm of the Extra-Human: Agents and Audiences WILLIAM H. NEWELL (ed.) Ancestors MICHAEL W. EVERETT, JACK O. WADDELL, and DWIGHT B. HEATH (eds.)- Cross-Cultural Approaches to the Study of Alcohol: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. ESTELLE FUCHS (ed.). Youth in a Changing World: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Adolescence. AGEHANANDA BHARATI (ed.). The Realm of he Extra-Human: Ideas and Actions. SPENCER. ROBERT F. and JESSE D. JENNINGS, et al. The Native Americans. ARTHUR J. RAY. Indians in the Fur Trade: Their Role as Trappers, Hunters, and Middlemen in the Lands southwest of Hudson Bay 1660–1870. WSEVOLOD ISAJIW (ed.). Identities: The Impact of Ethnicity on Canadian Society. BAN SENG HOE. Structural Changes of Two Chinese Communities in Alberta, Canada. ANNE T. BRODZKY, ROSE DANESEWICH. and NICK JOHNSON, (eds.), Stones, Bone and Skin. C.J. RICHARDSON. Contemporary Social Mobility. STEWART CRYSDALE and LES WHEATCROFT (eds.) Religion in Canadian Society. JOHN HAGAN. The Disreputable Pleasures. gary d. bouma and wilma J. bouma. Fertility Control: Canada's Lively Social Problem. rémi savard. Le Rire Précolombien dans le Québec D'Anjourd hui. Les Cahiers du CRSR. No. 1. Québec: Centre de Recherches en Sociologie Religieuse, Univer-sité Laval, 1977, 183 pages MARIE-ODILE MÉTRAL. Le mariage: Les hésitations de l'Occident. Préface de Philippe Ariès. Collection Présence et Pensée. CHABOT, RICHARD. Le curé de campagne et la contestation locale au Québec de 1791 aux troubles de 1837–38. Cahiers du Québec. marc adélard tremblay (sous la direction de) Les facettes de l'identité amérindienne I The Patterns of “Amerindian” Identity. Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 1976, 316 pages FRANÇOIS-MARC GAGNON. La Conversion par l'Image: Un Aspect de la Mission des Jésuites auprès des Indiens du Canada an XVII siècle. PIERRE BEAUCAGE, JACQUES GOMILA. et Lionel vallée. Testes présentés par jacqueline fry. L'Expérience anthropologique. Série Collections et archives de l'Université de Montréal.     

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 .     

Language endangerment and language revival

Books reviewed in this article:
David Crystal, Language Death
Leanne Hinton and Ken Hale (eds.), The Green Book of Language Revitalization in Practice
Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine, Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages     

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

Books reviewed
Jones, Mari C. Language Obsolescence and Revitalization. Linguistic Change in Two Sociolinguistically Contrasting Welsh Communities .
Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue; Shanker, Stuart and Taylor, Talbot. Apes, Language and the Human Mind .
Kurzon, Dennis. 1998. Discourse of Silence .
Blommaert, Jan and Verschueren, Jef. Debating Diversity: Analysing the Discourse of Tolerance .
Robertshaw, Paul. Summary Justice: Judges Address Juries .
Broderick, George. Language Death in the Isle of Man: An Investigation into the Decline and Extinction of Manx Gaelic as a Community Language in the Isle of Man .
Jenkins, Geraint H. (ed.). Language and Community in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History of the Welsh Language .
Czyz˙ewski, Marek; Kowalski, Sergiusz and Piotrowski, Andrzej (eds.). Rytualny chaos: Studium dyskursu publicznego .
Suleiman, Yasir (ed.). Language and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa .     

Book Notices

Gregory M. Mathoesian. Reproducing Rape: Domination through Talk in the Courtroom (Language and Legal Discourse)
Sidney Greenbaum (ed.). Comparing English Worldwide: The International Corpus of English.
Mari´a José Serrano. La variacio´n sinta´ctica: formas verbales del periodo hipote´tico en espan˜ol
Ian Hutchby. Confrontation Talk: Arguments, Asymmetries, and Power on Talk Radio
Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski (eds.). Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Thomas H. Slone . Rasta Is Cuss: A Dictionary of Rastafarian Cursing Thomas H. Slone . Prokem: An Analysis of a Jakartan Slang Alex Argenti ‐Pillen . Masking Terror: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka Lynn Thiesmeyer (ed.). Discourse and Silencing: Representation and the Language of Displacement Paul Chilton . Analysing Political Discourse: Theory and Practice Catherine Wallace . Critical Reading in Language Education Richard J. Watts . Politeness Janet Holmes and Maria Stubbe . Power and Politeness in the Workplace Pol Cuvelier , Theo du Plessis and Lut Teck (eds.). Multilingualism, Education and Social Integration: Belgium, Europe, South Africa, Southern Africa Roger M. Thompson . Filipino English and Taglish: Language Switching from Multiple Perspectives Anya Woods . Medium or Message? Language and Faith in Ethnic Churches Jacques Maurais and Michael A. Morris (eds.). Languages in a Globalising World     

Book reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
Wallace Clement. The Canadian Corporate Elite: An Analysis of Economic Power.
Dennis Forcese and Stephen Richer, Issues in Canadian Society: An Introduction to Sociology.
Elliott Leyton, Dying Hard: The Rnwges of industrial Crrrnnge.
James C. Hackler, Why Delinquency Prevention Programs in Canada Should Not be Evalyated.
Mark W. Novak, Living and Learning in the Free School.
Jean-Paul Hautecoeur, L'Acadie du discours.
Maria Campbell. Halfbreed.
Henry Zenter. The Indian Identity Crisis.
Louis-Edmond Hamelin. La Nordicité canadienne.
Joel S. Sawshinsky, The Trail of the Hare: Life and Stress in an Arctic Community.
Stewart Crysdai E and Jean-Paul Mont-Miny. Assisted by Henrique Urbano and Les Wheatcroft. La Religion Au Canada: Bi-bliographie annotée & (1945–1970)|Religion in Canada: Annotated Inventory (1945–1972).
John O' Neill. Making Sense Together: An Introduction to Wild Sociology.
Lloyd Axworthy and James M. Gillies (eds.), The City: Canada's Proapects, Canada's Problems.
Alan H. Portigal (ed.). Measuring the Quality of Working Life: A Symposium on Social Indicators of Working Life, Ottawa, March 19 und 20, 1973.
Jacques Grand'Maison, Des milieux de travail á réinventer.
Jacques Grand'Maison, Une tentative autogestion.
Jacques Grand'Maison, Le Prive et le Public.
David P. Shugarman (Ed.) Thinking about change.     

Book Notices

Books reviewed:
Mazraani, Nathalie. Aspects of Language Variation in Arabic Political Speech-Making
Moreau, Marie-Louise (ed.). Sociolinguistique: Concepts de base     

Literacy in the modern world

Books reviewed in this article:
Clark, R. and Ivanic, R. The Politics of Writing
Hasan, Ruqaiya and Williams, Geoff (eds.). Literacy in Society (Applied Linguistics and Language Study)
Johns, Ann M. Text, Role, and Context: Developing Academic Literacies (Cambridge Applied Linguistics)
Lankshear, Colin with Gee, James Paul; Knobel, Michele and Searle, Chris. Changing Literacies
Andre´e, Tabouret-Keller; Le Page, Robert B.; Gardner-Chloros, Penelope and Varro, Gabrielle (eds.). Vernacular Literacy: A Re-evaluation (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)     

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/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: DANIELGLENDAY, HUBERTGUINDON, and ALLAN TUROWETZ (eds.), Modernization and the Canadian State. GORDON BOWKER and JOHN CARRIER. Race and Ethnic Relations: Sociological Readings. JOSEPH F. KRAUTER and MORRIS DAVIS. Minority Canadians: Ethnic Group. PAT ARMSTRONG and HUGH ARMSTRONG. The Double Ghetto: Canadian Women and Their Segregated Work. LEROY O. STONE and CLAUDE MARCEAU. Canadian Population Trends and Public Policy Through the 1980's. KAROL KROTKI (ed.). Developments in Dual System Estimation of Population Size and Growth. MARTIN RULMER (ed.). Mining and Social Change. M. SILVERMAN and R.F. SALISBURY. A House Divided.? anthropological Studies of Factionalism: Social and Economic Papers No. 9. Institute of Social and Economic Research. RENEE G. KASINSKY. Refugees From Militarism: Draft-age Americans in Canada.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Review Essay Global Agriculture and Food: Libby , Ronald T. Protecting Markets. Review Essay Global Agriculture and Food: Fletcher , Lehman B. (ed.). World Food in the 1990s: Production, Trade and Aid. Review Essay Global Agriculture and Food: Schmandt , Jurgen , Frederick Williams , Robert H. Wilson , and Sharon Strover (eds.). Telecommunications and Rural Development: A Study of Private and Public Sector Innovation. Review Essay Global Agriculture and Food: Korsching , Peter F., Timothy O. Borich, and Julie Stewart (eds.). Multicommunity Collaboration: An Evolving Rural Revitalization Strategy. Review Essay Global Agriculture and Food: Buse , Rueben C., and James L. Driscoll (eds.). Rural Information Systems: New Directions in Data Collection and Retrieval. Review Essay Global Agriculture and Food: Flora , Cornelia Butler , Jan L. Flora , Jacqueline D. Spears, and Louis E. Swanson, with Mark B. Lapping and Mark L. Weinberg . Rural Communities: Legacy and Change. Rural Development: Straub , Lavonne A., and Norman Walzer (eds.). Rural Health Care: Innovation in a Changing Environment. Rural Development: Reidy , Joseph P. From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800–1880. Rural Development: Davidson , Osha Gray . Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto. Regional Studies: Cobb , James C. The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. Regional Studies: Thompson , Paul B. The Ethics of Aid and Trade: U.S. Food Policy, Foreign Competition, and the Social Contract. International Trade: Dicken , Peter . Global Shift: The Internationalization of Economic Activity (2nd ed.). International Trade: Satzewich , Vic . Racism and the Incorporation of Foreign Labour: Farm Labour Migration to Canada Since 1945. Environmental Issues: Croll , Elisabeth, and David Parkin (eds.). Bush Base, Forest Farm: Culture, Environment and Development. Environmental Issues: Krimsky , Sheldon, and Dominic Golding (eds.). Social Theories of Risk.     

Book Reviews

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     

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     

Books Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Pollert, Anna. Transformation at work in the new market economies of central eastern Europe Recent books: Avery, Christine; Zabel, Diane. The flexible workplace: A sourcebook of information and research. Borghans, Lex; de Grip, Andries (eds.). The overeducated worker? The economics of skill utilization. Consejo Económico y Social de España. La protección social de las mujeres Desai, Padma; Idson, Todd. Work without wages: Russia's nonpayment crisis Kimmel, Michael S. (ed., with Amy Aronson). The gendered society reader Kimmel, Michael S.; Messner, Michael A. (eds.). Men's lives Warner, Aaron W.; Forstater, Mathew; Rosen, Sumner M. (eds.). Commitment to full employment: The economics and social policy of William S. Vickrey. New ILO publications: International Labour Conference, 89th Session, 2001, Report III (Part 1A): Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations: General report and observations concerning particular countries International Labour Conference, 89th Session, Report III (Part 1B): Night work of women in industry. Geneva International Labour Conference, 89th Session, 2001, Report V(2): Promotion of cooperatives. Geneva International Labour Conference, 89th Session, 2001, Report VI: Social security: Issues, challenges and prospects Human resources development, employment and globalization in the hotel, catering and tourism sector. Report for discussion at the Tripartite Meeting on Human Resources Development, Employment and Globalization in the Hotel, Catering and Tourism Sector Las relaciones laborales en las reformas de la salud y educación francs. Safety in the use of synthetic vitreous fibre insulation wools The employment impact of mergers and acquisitions in the banking and financial services sector. Report for discussion at the Tripartite Meeting on the Employment Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Banking and Financial Services Sector The public employment service in a changing labour market Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy Women, gender and work: What is equality and how do we get there? Youth unemployment and employment policy: A global perspective     

Book Reviews

Family Ties and Aging. Ingrid Arnet Connidis. Halving It All: How Equally Shared Parenting Works. Francine M. Deutsch. The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued. Ann Crittenden. Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation. Nancy F. Cott. Care Work: Gender, Labor and the Welfare State. Madonna Harrington Meyer, ed. Working Families: The Transformation of the American Home. Rosanna Hertz and Nancy L. Marshall, eds. From Culture Wars to Common Ground: Religion and the American Family Debate (2nd ed). Don S. Browning, Bonnie J. Miller‐McLemore, Pamela D. Couture, K. Brynolf Lyon, and Robert M. Franklin. Gay and Lesbian Parenting. Deborah F. Glazer and Jack Drescher (eds.). Remaking the Godly Marriage: Gender Negotiation in Evangelical Families. John P. Bartkowski.     

Book reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
S andra B. B urman and B arbara H arrell -B ond , (eds.), The Imposition of Law.
J. Paul Grayson (ed.) Class, State, Ideology and Change: Marxist Perspectives on Canada.
David Coburn, Carl D'Arcy, Peter New and George Torrence (eds.), Health and Canadian Society: Sociological Perspectives.
Charles C. Lemert (ed.), French Sociology: Rupture and Renewal Since 1968.
Derek L. Phillips, Equality, Justice and Rectification: An Exploration in Normative Sociology.
William H. Durham, Scarcity and Survival in Central America: Ecological Origins of the Soccer War.
Randle W. Nelsen and David A. Nock (eds.), Reading, Writing, and Riches: Education and the Socio-Economic Order in North America.
Jeffrey G. Reitz, The Survival of Ethnic Groups.
Harold E. Pepinsky, Crime Control Strategies: An Introduction to the Study of Crime.
Michiel Horn, The League for Social Reconstruction: Intellectual Origins of the Democratic Left in Canada, 1930–1942.
Alvin Finkel, Business and Social Reform in the Thirties.
Suzanne Berger and Michael J. piore, Dualism and Discontinuity in Industrial Societies.
Paul I. Ahmed and George V. Coelho (eds,), Toward a New Definition of Health, Psychosocial Dimension.