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Kenneth Cragg, Faiths in their pronouns. Brighton, U.K. and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2002. Pp.245. Pb $27.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2004

Jennifer E. Jacobs
Jennifer E. Jacobs
Affiliation:
Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, jejacobs@sas.upenn.edu
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Its title and back-panel blurb are somewhat misleading: Faiths in their pronouns reflects a field of scholarship completely removed from the evidentiary standards to which sociolinguistic researchers are accustomed. This review therefore approaches the work with two broad questions in mind. First, how is scholarship from sociolinguistics transformed and utilized by other fields of study? And second, what can social scientists glean from various projects of “humanism” that bring to the forefront linguistic phenomena such as pronouns?

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Language in Society , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , July 2004 , pp. 450 - 452
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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