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Volume 42 - February 2013

Book Reviews

Jürgen Streeck, Gesturecraft: The manu-facture of meaning. (Gesture studies 2.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009. Pp. 235. Hb. $135.

Uriel Weinreich, Languages in contact: French, German and Romansh in twentieth-century Switzerland. With an introduction and notes by Ronald I. Kim and William Labov. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011. Pp. xxxiv, 401. Hb. $149.

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William Labov , Principles of linguistic change, vol. 3: Cognitive and cultural factors. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2011. Pp. xxviii, 419. Pb. $46.95.

Michael Lambek (ed.), Ordinary ethics: Anthropology, language, and action. New York: Fordham University Press, 2010. Pp. xvii, 458. Pb. $30.57.

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Robin Sabino, Language contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack his jacket. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xix, 337. Hb. $156.

Ruth Wodak, Barbara Johnstone & Paul Kerswill (eds.), The Sage handbook of sociolinguistics. London: Sage, 2011. Pp. vii, 630. Hb. $150. - Rajend Mesthrie (ed.), The Cambridge handbook of sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xii, 530. Hb. $156.

Michael Lempert, Discipline and debate: The language of violence in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Pp. xx, 216. Pb. $26.95.

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Nino Amiridze, Boyd H. Davis, & Margaret Maclagan (eds.), Fillers, pauses and placeholders. (Typological studies in language.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010. Pp. vii, 224. Hb. $149.

Daniel Z. Kadar & Sara Mills (eds.), Politeness in East Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xiii, 314. Hb. $105.

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Francisco Moreno-Fernández, Sociolingüística cognitiva: Proposiciones, escolios y debates. Madrid: Iberoamericana, and Frankfurt am Main: Velvuert, 2012. Pp. 302. Hb. 29.80€.

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Jim Miller & Regina Weinert, Spontaneous spoken language: Syntax and discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii, 467. Pb. $39.96.

Markku Haakana, Minna Laakso, & Jan Lindström, Talk in interaction: Comparative dimensions. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2010. Pp. 317. Pb. $33.48.

Vijay K. Bhatia, Christopher N. Candlin, & Maurizio Gotti (eds.), The discourses of dispute resolution. Bern: Peter Lang. Pp. vi, 290. Pb. $94.95.

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Shirley Brice Heath, Words at work and play: Three decades in family and community life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv, 221. Pb. $27.99.

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Mats Ekström & Marianna Patrona (eds), Talking politics in broadcast media: Cross cultural perspectives on political interviewing, journalism and accountability. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011. Pp. ix, 248. Hb. €95, $143.

Bernd Meyer & Birgit Apfelbaum (eds.), Multilingualism at work: From policies to practices in public, medical and business settings. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2010. Pp. viii, 274. Hb. $113.

Anne Barron, Public information messages: A contrastive genre analysis of state-citizen communication. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2012. Pp. xix, 340. Hb. $149.

Dianne Bardsley, In the paddock and on the run: The language of rural New Zealand. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2009. Pp. 464. Pb. $50.

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Yasemin Yildiz, Beyond the mother tongue: The postmonolingual condition. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. Pp. xi, 306. Hb. $50.05.

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Alice F. Freed & Susan Ehrlich (eds.), “Why do you ask?” The function of questions in institutional discourse. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv, 356. Pb. $39.95.

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