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Volume 14 - September 1985

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David D. Clarke, Language and action: A structural model of action. (International Series in Experimental Social Psychology 7.) Oxford: Pergamon, 1983. Pp. xiv + 318.

William M. O'Barr, Linguistic evidence: Language. power, and strategy in the courtroom. (Studies on Law and Social Control.) New York: Academic, 1982. Pp. xv + 192.

Gerhard Cordes and Dieter Möhn (eds.), Handbuch zur niederdeutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1983. Pp. xv + 800.

Sanchez Rosaura, Chicano discourse: Socio-historic perspectives. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1983. Pp. viii + 184.

Educational Linguistics - Fred R. Eckman, Lawrence H. Bell, and Diane Nelson (eds.), Universals of second language acquisition. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1984. Pp. xiv + 150.

Einar Flydal, Oljespråk: Språklige lovbrudd og lovlige språkbrudd på sokkelen (Oil language: Linguistic law breaking and lawful language breaking on the continental shelf). Stavanger and Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1983. Pp. 165.

Håkon Jahr Ernst, Talemålet i skolen: En studie av drøftinger og bestemmelser om muntlig språkbruk i folkeskolen (fra 1874 til 1925). Oslo: Novus Forlag1984. Pp. 498.

Caroline Macafee, Glasgow. (Varieties of English Around the World, Vol. 3.) Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1983. Pp. 167.

Historical Perspectives - Dell H. Hymes, Essays in the history of linguistic anthropology. (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, Ill: Studies in the History of Linguistics, Volume 25.) Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1983. Pp. xxiii + 406.

Literacy - Ivar Vannebo Kjell, En nasjon av skriveføre: Om utviklinga fram mot allmenn skriveferdighet på 1800-tallet (A nation of scribal literates). Oslo: Novus Forlag, 1984. Pp. ii + 208.

Textbooks - W. N. Francis, Dialectology: An introduction. (Longman Linguistics Library 29.) London and New York: Longman, 1983. Pp. x + 240.

Discourse - T. Givón (ed.), Topic continuity in discourse: A quantitative cross-language study. (Typological Studies in Language, vol. 3.) Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1983. Pp. 492.

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Eric De Grolier (ed.), Glossogenetics: The origin and evolution of language. Chur, Paris, and New York: Harwood Academic, 1983. Pp. xi + 546.

Educational Linguistics - Charlene Rivera (ed.), An ethnographic/sociolinguistic approach to language proficiency assessmentClevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, 1983. Pp. xxviii + 140.

Mae Chu-chang (ed., with assistance of Victor Rodriguez), Asian and Pacific- American perspectives in bilingual education: Comparative research. New York: Teacher's College Press, 1983. Pp. xiv + 257.

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Roger D. Abrahams and John F. Szwed. After Africa: Extracts from British travel accounts and journals of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries concerning the slaves, their manners, and customs in the British West Indies. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983. Pp. 444.

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