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Deborah Cameron et al., Researching language: Issues of power and method. London & New York: Routledge. 1992. Pp. 148. pb $15.95.

James R. Dow (ed.), Language and ethnicity: Focusschrift in honor of Joshua A. Fishman, vol 2. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1991. Pp. 255.

Pádraig Ó Riagáin, Language maintenance and language shift as strategies of social reproduction: Irish in the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht, 1926–1986. Baile Átha Cliath: Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann, 1992. Pp. iv, 168.

Janet Holmes, An introduction to sociolinguistics. London: Longman, 1992. Pp. xvi, 412. £13.99.

Joshua A. Fishman, Reversing language shift: Theoretical and empirical foundations of assistance to threatened languages. Clevedon (England) & Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters, 1991. pp. xiii + 413.

John A. Lucy, Language diversity and thought: A reformulation of the linguistic relativity hypothesis. (Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language, 12). Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xi, 328. Hb $59.95, pb $22.95.

John A. Lucy, Grammatical categories and cognition: A case study of the linguistic relativity hypothesis. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1992 Pp. xv, 211.

Maria Sifianou, Politeness phenomena in England and Greece: A crosscultural perspective. Oxford: Clarendon, 1992. Pp. xi, 254. Hb $55.00.

Rajend Mesthrie Language in indenture: A sociolinguistic history of Bhojpuri-Hindi in South Africa. London & New York: Routledge, 1992. Pp. xvii, 325.

Candace Mitchell & Kathleen Weiler (eds.), Rewriting literacy: Culture and the discourse of the other. New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1991. Pp. xxx + 281.

Neal R. Norrick, Conversational joking: Humor in everyday talk. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. Pp, x, 175. Hb $29.95.

Florian Coulmas, Language and economy. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. Pp. xii, 377.

Anne McGill-Franzen. Shaping the preschool agenda: Early literacy, public policy, and professional beliefs. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. Pp, v, 227.

Hervé Varenne, Ambiguous harmony: Family talk in America. (Advances in discourse processes, 44.) Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1992. Pp. xx + 256. Hb $52.50, pb $29.00.

Rajend Mesthrie, Engligh in language shift: The history, structure and sociolinguistics of South African Indian English. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xix, 252. Hb $64.95.

Guy Cook, The discoure of advertising. London & New York: Routledge, 1992. Pp. xxi, 250. Hb $59.95, pb $18.95.

Sylvester Douglas, A treatise on the provincial dialect of Scotland. Ed. by Charles Jones Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991. Pp, x, 278. Hb $59.00.

Ho Mian-Lian & John T. Platt, Dynamics of a contact continuum: Singaporean English. (Oxford studies in language contact.) Oxford: Clarendon, 1993. Pp. xvii, 210. Hb £30.00, $47.50.

Frances Trix, Spiritual discourse: Learning with an Islamic master. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. Pp. x + 189. Hb $24.95, pb $14.95.

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