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Volume 12 - September 1983

Book Review

Boyd H. Davis and Raymond K. O'Cain (eds.), First person singular: Papers from the Conference on an Oral Archive for the History of American Linguistics (Charlotte, N.C., 9–10 March 1979). Amsterdam: John Benjamins B.V., 1980. Pp. xiii + 239.

Ron Scollon and Suzanne B.K. Scollon, Narrative, literacy, and face in interethnic communication. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex. 1981. Pp. xiv + 209.

Roger W. Shuy and Anna Shnukal (eds.), Language use and the uses of language. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1980. Pp. viii + 296.

Colin MacCabe (ed.), The talking cure: Essays in psychoanalysis and language. New York: St. Martins, 1981. Pp. xiii + 230.

Language Acquisition - Peggy J. Miller, Amy, Wendy, and Beth: Learning language in South Baltimore. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982. Pp. xii + 196.

Languages and Language Varieties - Jean-Michel Charpentier, Le pidgin Bislama(n) et le multilinguisme aux Nouvelles-Hébrides. (Langues et civilisations à tradition orale, 35.) Paris: Société d'Etudes Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France (SELAF), 1979. Pp. 416.

Marshall Morris, Saying and meaning in Puerto Rico: Some problems in the ethnography of discourse. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1981. Pp. xiv + 152.

Peter Cole (ed.), Radical pragmatics. New York: Academic Press, 1981. Pp. xiv + 328.

David Sutcliffe, British Black English. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1982. Pp. 210.

Svenka Savić, How twins learn to talk. London: Academic Press, 1980. Pp. xvi + 195.

Language Situations - Nancy C. Dorian, Language death. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. Pp. xviii + 206.

Language Situations - J. K. Chambers (ed.), The languages of Canada. Montreal: Didier, 1979. Pp. 263.

Charles A. Ferguson and Shirley Brice Heath (eds.), Language in the USA. Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xxxviii + 592.

Language Acquisition - Werner Deutsch (ed.), The child's construction of language. New York: Academic Press, 1981. Pp. x + 393.

W. K. Vass, The Bantu speaking heritage of the United States. (CASS Monograph Series,2.) Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies, University of California, 1979. Pp. xi + 122.

Literacy - Giorgio Raimondo Cardona, Antropologia della scrittura. Torino: Loescher Editore, 1981.

Martin Nystrand. (ed.), What writers know: The language, process, and structure of written discourse. New York: Academic Press, 1982. Pp. xix +391.

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Language Acquisition - Peggy J. Miller, Amy, Wendy, and Beth: Learning language in South Baltimore. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1982. Pp. xii + 196.

Grammatical and Theoretical Models - Teun Hoekstra, Harry van der Hulst, and Michael Moortgat (eds.), Perspectives on functional grammar. Dordrecht, Netherlands and Cinnaminson, U.S.A.: Foris Publications, 1981. Pp. 352.

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