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Volume 20 - December 1991

Book Review

Adam Kendon, Sign languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, semiotic, and communicative perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xviii + 542.

W. Ross Winterowd, The culture and politics of literacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv + 226.

Ceil Lucas (ed.), The sociolinguistics of the Deaf community. San Diego: Academic, 1989. Pp. xiii + 307.

Language Varieties and Situations - P. Lowenberg (ed.), Language spread and language policy: Issues, implications, and case studies. Washington, D C.: Georgetown University Press. 1988, Pp. 408.

Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni, Les interactions verbales. Vol. I. Paris: Armand Colin, 1990. Pp. 318.

Roeland van Hout and Uus Knops (eds.), Language attitudes in the Dutch language area. Dordrecht: Foris1988. Pp. vi + 202.

Katharine Galloway Young, Taleworlds and storyrealms: The phenomenology of narrative. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987. Pp. xiv + 268.

Henriette Walter, Le français dans tous les sens. Paris: Robert Laffont, 1988. Pp. 384.

Philip E. Webber, Pella Dutch: The portrait of a language and its use in of Iowa's ethnic communities. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1988. Pp. x + 163.

Language Varieties and Situations - Jenny Cheshire, Viv Edwards, Henk Münstermann, and Bert Weltens (eds.), Dialect and education: Some European perspectives (Multilingual Matters, 53). Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, 1989. Pp. x + 334.

Language Acquisition - Bambi B. Schieffelin, The give and take of everyday life: Language socialization of Kaluli children. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. viii + 278.

Pidginization and Creolization - John Holm, Pidgins and Creoles. Vol. 1Theory and structure. Vol. 2: Reference survey (Cambridge Language Surveys). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xix + 257, xxi + 445.

Second Language Acquisition - Susan Gass, Carolyn Madden, Dennis Preston, and Larry Selinker (eds.), Variation in second language acquisition. Vol. 1Discourse and pragmatics. Pp. vii + 264. Vol. 2: Psycholinguistic issues. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 1989. Pp. vii + 288.

Language Varieties and Situations - John M. Lipski, The language of the Isleños: Vestigial Spanish in Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. Pp. x + 148.

Nikolas Coupland (ed.), English in Wales. Clevedon and Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters, 1990. Pp. viii + 295.

Communicative Description - Geneviève Calbris, The semiotics of French gestures. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv + 236.

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Mary Louise Edwards, Introduction to applied phonetics. Laboratory workbook. San Diego: College Hill Press; Basingstoke: Taylor & Francis, 1986 Pp. 180.

Amy J. Devitt, Standardizing written English: Diffusion in the case of Scotland, 1520–1659, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xi + 122.

Literacy - Anthony R. Sarmiento & Ann Kay, Worker-centered learning: A union guide to workplace literacy. Washington, DC: AFL-CIO Human Resources Development Institute, 1990. Pp. vi + 136.

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