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

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

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

Book reviewed in this article: Managing the Shopfloor. Subjectivity, Masculinity and Workplace Culture by David L. Collinson. Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Labour in Contemporary Britain by Nicky Gregson and Michelle Lowe. Women and Market. Learning of the Differences in the Finnish and German Labour Markets by Pertti Koistinen and Ilona Ostner (eds.).     

Book Reviews

Sandra Lee McKay and Nancy H. Hornberger (eds). Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching.
David Crystal. The Cambridge Encylopaedia of the English Language.
W. Peter Robinson. Deceit, Delusion and Detection.
William F. Hanks. Language and Communicative Practices.
Elizabeth Couper–Kuhlen and Margaret Selting (eds). Prosody in Conversation: Interactive Studies.
Vivian de Klerk (ed.). Focus on South Africa.
M. Teresa Turell Julià (ed.). La Sociolingüística de la variació.
Michael Clyne. The German Language in a Changing Europe.
Jon F. Nussbaum and Justine Coupland (eds). Handbook of Communication and Aging Research.
David W. Green and others. Cognitive Science: an Introduction.     

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/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
EDWARD C. LEHMAN, Jr., Women Clergy Breaking Through Gender Barriers.
ROBERTA HAMILTON and MICHELE BARRETT (eds.), The Politics of Diversity: Feminism, Marxism and Nationalism.
MARY JO DEEGAN and MICHAEL R. HILL (eds.), Women and Symbolic Interaction.
JANE B. LANCASTER and BEATRIX A. HAMBURG (eds.), School-Age Pregnancy and Parenthood: Biosocial Dimensions.
MARLA N. POWERS, Oglala Women: Myth, Ritual, and Reality.
NORTH-SOUTH INSTITUTE, Women in Industry: North-South Connections.
SWASTI MITTER, Common Fate, Common Bond: Women in the Global Economy.
MARIA MIES, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour.
JUNE NASH and MARIA PATRICIA FERNANDEZ-KELLY (eds.), Women, Men, and the International Division of Labor.
STEPHANIE COONTZ and PETA HENDERSON (eds.), Women's Work, Women's Property: The Origins of Gender and Class.
ROBERT L. RUBINSTEIN, Singular Path: Old Men Living Alone.
DEBORAH DAVIS-FRIEDMANN, Long Lives: Chinese Elderly and the Communist Revolution.
JOHN J. MILETICH (compiler), Retirement: An Annotated Bibliography.
ELVI WHITTAKER, The Mainland Haole: the White Experience in Hawaii.
ALBERTHIRSCHMAN, Vers une économiepolitique élargie.
JEAN-PIERRE DUPUIS, Le ROCC de Rimouski. La recherche de nouvelles solidaritiés, Documents de recherche.
ROBERT D. REECE and HARVEY A. SIEGAL, Studying People: A Primer in the Ethics of Social Research.
LINTEAU, DUROCHER, ROBERT, RICARD, Le Québec contemporain depuis 1930, tome
JOHN D. KASARDA, JOHN O.G. BILLY and KIRSTEN WEST, Status Enhancement and Fertility: Reproductive Responses to Social Mobility and Educational Opportunity.     

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:
Susan Ehrlich, Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent
Deborah Cameron, Working with Spoken Discourse
Stefan Titscher, Michael Meyer, Ruth Wodak and Eva Vetter, Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis
Linda A. Wood and Rolf O. Kroger, Doing Discourse Analysis: Methods for Studying Action in Talk and Text
Srikant Sarangi and Celia Roberts (eds.), Talk, Work and Institutional Order: Discourse in Medical, Mediation and Management Settings
Ulrich Ammon (ed.), The Dominance of English as a Language of Science: Effects on Other Languages and Language Communities
Alexandra Jaffe, Ideologies in Action: Language Politics on Corsica
Niloofar Haeri, The Sociolinguistic Market of Cairo: Gender, Class and Education
Anita Y. K. Poon, Medium of Instruction in Hong Kong: Policy and Practice
Tariq Rahman, Language, Education and Culture
Dariusz Galasinski, The Language of Deception: A Discourse Analytical Study
Clifford Hill and Eric Larsen, Children and Reading Tests
Fern L. Johnson, Speaking Culturally: Language Diversity in the United States
Lucy Burke, Tony Crowley and Alan Girvin (eds.), The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader     

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 .     

Books

Book reviewed in this article: Reviews: David, Natacha. From Asia to Russia to Brazil … The impact of the financial and economic crisis on women Reviews: Gual, Jordi (ed.). Job creation: The role of labor market institutions Reviews: Joshi, Heather; Paci, Pierella, with Makepiece, Gerald; Waldfogel, Jane. Unequal pay for women and men Reviews: Kornai, Janos. Struggle and hope: Essays on stabilization and reform in post-socialist economy Reviews: Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel. Albania in crisis: The predictable fall of the shining star Recent books: Bhaduri, Amit; Skarstein, Rune (eds.). Economic development and agricultural productivity Recent books: Boserup, Ester. My professional life and publications 1929–1998 Recent books: Browne, Irene (ed.). Latinas and African American women at work: Race, gender, and economic inequality Recent books: Custers, Peter. Capital accumulation and women's labour in Asian economies Recent books: Papola, T. S.; Sharma, Alakh N. (eds.). Gender and employment in India Recent books: World Confederation of Labour. Gender and informal sector New ILO publications: Gender and jobs: Sex segregation of occupations in the world. By Richard Anker New ILO publications: Negotiating flexibility: The role of the social partners and the State. Edited by Muneto Ozaki     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Abstract Demography: Jobes , Patrick C., William F. Stinner, and John M. Wardwell (eds.). Demography: Ross , John A., and Elizabeth Frankenberg . Findings from Two Decades of Family Planning Research. Demography: Bull , C. Neil (ed.). Aging in Rural America. Demography: Bollman , Ray D. (ed.). Rural and Small Town Canada. Demography: Swanson , Linda L., and David L. Brown (eds.). Rural History: Jones , Jacqueline . The Dispossessed: America's Underclass from the Civil War to Present. Rural History: Craig , Lee A. To Sow One Acre More: Childbearing and Farm Productivity in the Antebellum North. Rural History: Mc Donald , Roderick . The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana. Rural History: Morgan , Sharon . Land Settlement in Early Tasmania: Creating an Antipodean England. Gender Studies: White , Sarah . Arguing with the Crocodile: Gender and Class in Bangladesh. Gender Studies: King , Elizabeth M., and M. Anne Hill (eds.). Gender Studies: Kahne , Hilda, and Janet Z. Giele (eds.). Women's Work and Women's Lives: The Continuing Struggle Worldwde. Agriculture: Almås , Reidar . Norway's Gift to Europe: Fifteen Selected Essays on Rural Persistence and Change. Agriculture: Csaki , Csaba, and Yoav Kislev (eds.). Agricultural Cooperatives in Transition. Agriculture: Winson , Anthony . The Intimate Commodity: Food and the Development of the Agro-Industrial Complex in Canada.     

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

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

Books reviewed: Jan Joost Teunissen (ed.), Regulatory and Supervisory Challenges in a New Era of Global Finance Isher Judge Ahluwalia and I.M.D. Little (eds), India’s Economic Reforms and Development: Essays for Manmohan Singh Philippe Cadène and Mark Holmström (eds), Decentralized Production in India: Industrial Districts, Flexible Specialization and Employment T. Dijkstra, Trading the Fruits of the Land: Horticultural Marketing Channels in Kenya Stephen Eccles and Catherine Gwin, Supporting Effective Aid: A Framework for Future Concessional Funding of Multilateral Development Banks Patricia Jeffery and Amrita Basu (eds), Appropriating Gender: Women’s Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia Saskia Everts, Gender and Technology: Empowering Women, Engendering Development Edward and Bridget Dommen, Mauritius: An Island of Success. A Retrospective Study, 1960-1993     

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 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
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

Books reviewed in this article: Rantalaiho, Liisa and Heiskanen, Tuula (eds), Gendered Practices in Working Life O'Reilly, Jacqueline and Fagan, Colette (eds), Part‐Time Prospects: An International Comparison of Part‐Time Work in Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim Brosnan, Mark, Technophobia: The Psychological Impact of Information Technology Wright, Rosemary, Women Computer Professionals: Progress and Resistance Popay, Jennie, Hearn, Jeff and Edwards, Jeanette (eds), Men, Gender Divisions and Welfare