text_combined: sociolinguistics anthropological linguistics english language pakistan edited robert j baumgardner present context use english pakistan assimilated diverse linguistic features reflect multilingual multicultural character language new south asian home present volume brings together first time essays historical sociological pedagogical linguistic perspectives pakistani english language pakistan september 1998 344 pp 37 halftones linecuts 019 577444 2 29 95 oxford university press kids talk strategic language use later childhood edited susan hoyle national library medicine carolyn temple adger center applied linguistics washington dc oxford studies sociolinguistics early childhood adulthood language acquisition succeeded bloom repertoire managing interaction growing sensitivity relation language society expanding ability wield power strategic use language increasing sophistication framing speech activities book examines wide range language practices among schoolage children teenagers using data naturally occurring recorded talk careful observation interaction peer groups contributors analyze talk play school work documenting growing communicative skills young people always focusing young speakers language theoretical constructs contributors appeal include goffman notion footing hymes communicative competence well multiple characterizations discourse structure chapters show older children strategic language users dynamic actors often concerned defining distinctive group different adults yet often display proficiency sophisticated discourse activities presage adulthood september 1998 312 pp 10 halftones 6 linecuts 019 509893 5 paper 35 00 019 509892 7 cloth 75 00 oxforduniversity press ideology language judges judges practice law politics courtroom control susan u philips university arizona oxford studies anthropological linguistics 17 masterful achievement quickly become major text literatures ideology discourse legal discourse deborah tannen georgetown university study appeal reader interested relationship language laws ideology language judges focuses way judges take guilty pleas criminal defendants judges views courtroom behavior book argues variation discourse structure guilty pleas best understood enactments judges differing interpretations due process law proper role judge courtroom susan philips demonstrates legal professional ideologies expressed differently interviews socially occurring speech reveals bounded written spoken genres legal discourse play role containing ordering ideological diversity language use also shows ideological struggles given courtroom central yet largely hidden denied findings contribute significantly study speakers create realities use language april 1998 224 pp 019 511341 1 paper 29 95 019 511340 3 cloth 59 00 oxford university press reconstructing grammar comparative cariban morphosyntax spike gildea rice university oxford studies anthropological linguistics 18 book two important aims first argue grammaticalization theory advanced point used comparative method reconstruct grammar proto languages second give detailed casestudy methodology examining typologically interesting cariban language family south america language group according linguists impossible far technical syntactic structure spike gildea findings answer longstanding questions historical reconstruction grammar interest linguists concerned south american languages grammaticalization well working descriptive functional traditions september 1998 304 pp 15 linecuts 019 510952 x 85 00 oxford university press _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ information linguistics titles oxford visit oxford university press usa web site http www oupusa org email linguistics oupusa org