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Volume 21 - December 1992

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Ernst-August Gutt, Translation and relevance: Cognition and context. Oxford: Black well, 1991. Pp. x + 222.

Linguistic anthropology - F. Merlan & A. Rumsey, Ku Waru: Language and segmentary politics in the western Nebilyer Valley, Papua New Guinea. Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xiv + 387.

Language descriptions - Geoffrey Kimball, Koasati grammar. (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians.) Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, 1990. Pp. xxx + 640.

George Dillon, Contending rhetorics: Writing in academic disciplines. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991. Pp. x + 175.

Natalie Lefkowitz, Talking backwards, looking forwards: The French language game Verlan. (Language in Performance 3.) Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1991. Pp. xiii + 158.

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Language origin - Philip Lieberman, Uniquely human: The evolution of speech, thought, and selfless behavior. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991. Pp. 210.

Emily A. Schultz, Dialogue at the margins: Whorf, Bakhtin, and linguistic relativity. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. Pp. xii + 178.

Language varieties and situations - Susan Berk-Seligson, The bilingual courtroom: Court interpreters in the judicial process. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Pp. xii + 299.

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Language and culture - Raymond GozziJr., New words and a changing American culture. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 124.

Deborah Tannen, You just don't understand: Women and men in conversation. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1990. Pp. 330.

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Language varieties and situations - Daniel Baggioni & Didier de Robillard, Ile Maurice: une francophonie paradoxale. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1990. Pp. 185.

R. D. Grillo, Dominant languages: Language and hierarchy in Britain and France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. ix + 261.

Language varieties and situations - Karen L. Adams & Daniel T. Brink (eds.), Perspectives on official English: The campaign for English as the official language of the USA. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1990. Pp. v + 365.

Benjamin Harshav, The meaning of Yiddish. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Pp. xix + 205.

Safder Alladina & Viv Edwards (eds.), Multilingualism in the British Isles: Volume 2. Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. London: Longman, 1991. Pp. xii + 278.

Alan Bell & Janet Holmes (eds.), New Zealand ways of speaking English. (Multilingual Matters 65.) Clevedon and Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters, 1990. Pp. vi + 305.

Werner Holly, Politikersprache: Inszenierungen und Rollenkonflikte im informellen Sprachhandeln eines Bundestagsabgeordneten [Political language: Staging and role conflict in the informal speech activity of a German legislator]. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1990. Pp. xi + 406.

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