Sociolinguistics
The Social Art
Best Book in Slavic Linguistics 2005, awarded by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
Language and Its Uses
N E W I N PA P E R B AC K
Language and Identity in the Balkans
S ECO N D E D I T I O N
Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration
Ronald Macaulay, Pitzer College (Emeritus)
Robert D. Greenberg, University of New Haven and Yale University After Yugoslavia collapsed in 1991 Serbo-Croatian disintegrated. Using his firsthand observations before and after communism Robert Greenberg describes how the languages of Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro came into being and shows how their genesis reflects ethnic, religious, and political identity. January 2007 | 200 pages 0-19-920875-1 / 978-0-19-920875-3 , PAPERBACK
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From the Kitchen to the Parlor
Family Talk Discourse and Identity in Four American Families
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Language and Becoming in African American Women’s Hair Care
Edited by Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University, Shari Kendall, Georgetown University, and Cynthia Gordon, Emory University This contributed volume will be one of the first to look truly in-depth at the face-to-face interactions within the American family. Working with the same data — audio tape recordings made in four family homes over the course of several years — the contributors focus on extending our knowledge of family discourse and identifying new ways in which family members create and enact their identities. Several broad themes emerge: the underlying dynamics of power and solidarity in the family and how they are reinforced through language; the negotiation of gendered roles in conjunction with family identities, especially in dual-income families; and the ways in which famlies actively confirm their beliefs and values when children are present. This ground-breaking volume will be of interest to students and scholars of linguistics, anthropology, and communications.
Lanita Jacobs-Huey, University of Southern California When is hair ‘just hair’ and when is it not ‘just hair’? Documenting the politics of African American women’s hair, this multi-sited linguistic ethnography explores everyday interaction in beauty parlors, Internet discussions, comedy clubs, and other contexts to illuminate how and why hair matters in African American women’s day-to-day experiences. Studies in Language and Gender April 2006 | 192 pages | OUP USA 0-19-530416-0 / 978-0-19-530416-9, PAPERBACK 0-19-530415-2 / 978-0-19-530415-2, HARDBACK
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NEW EDITION
Conversational Style Analyzing Talk among Friends
The Multilingual Internet Language, Culture, and Communication Online
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This is the first book devoted to analyzing internet related computer-mediated-communication (CMC) in languages other than English. The volume collects 18 new articles that revolve around several central topics such as: writing systems, the structure and features of local languages and how they affect internet use, code switching between multiple languages, gender issues, public policy issues, and so on.
Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University
February 2007 | 448 pages
Conversational Style presents a linguistic approach on how to analyze conversational style. Looking at six speakers over the course of a two-and-a-half hour Thanksgiving dinner, she analyzes the features that make up their conversational style, and in particular how these styles function in a positive manner when those style are similar to one another, and in a negative way when they are different. Tannen deliberately wrote the book to be accessible and non-technical, for appeal to both students and scholars. It continues to find course use in sociolinguistics, language and gender, and women’s studies courses.
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2005 | 264 pages | OUP USA 0-19-522181-8 / 978-0-19-522181-7, PAPERBACK
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Edited by Brenda Danet, Hebrew University and Susan C. Herring, Indiana University
April 2007 | 272 pages
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This is the improved and expanded second edition of The Social Art, an engagingly written, highly accessible tour through the world of language. Macaulay uses jokes, anecdotes, quotations, and examples to introduce readers to the full range of current linguistic knowledge, covering in 35 brief chapters (2 new to the second edition) topics like language acquisition, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, dialects, conversation, narrative, swearing, and more. February 2006 | 256 pages | OUP USA 0-19-518796-2 / 978-0-19-518796-0, PAPERBACK
Linguistics in the Courtroom A Practical Guide Roger W. Shuy, Georgetown University (Emeritus) More and more frequently linguists are being called upon to consult with lawyers and to testify at trials. The field known as ‘forensic linguistics’ is growing rapidly as linguists analyze spoken and written language evidence in both civil and criminal cases. Roger W. Shuy is a prominent linguist who has applied linguistics to the area of law for over thirty-five years. His book is a practical, how-to guide for both beginning and established linguists who have been called upon in this capacity and who may want to start their own consulting practice. Step by step, the book deals with issues of how linguists first become and then represent themselves as experts, how they can start and manage the practice of consulting on law cases, how they can address important issues of professional ethics, how they can work most effectively with lawyers, useful strategies for writing reports and affidavits, and how to participate successfully in depositions, direct examinations and cross examinations at trial. Any linguist who is involved professionally in a legal action will find this volume an essential resource. June 2006 | 160 pages | OUP USA 0-19-530664-3 / 978-0-19-530664-4, HARDBACK
The Language of Law School Learning to ‘Think Like a Lawyer’
Parent-Physician Conversations and Antibiotics Tanya Stivers, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Antibiotics will soon no longer cure many illnesses due to escalating bacterial resistance. Still, physicians continue prescribing antibiotics for viral illnesses. This book examines parent-physician conversations asking how small differences in phrasing affect prescribing decisions and how physicians deal with the social dilemma pitting individuals against a greater social good.
In this linguistic study of law school education, Mertz shows how law professors employ the Socratic method between teacher and student, forcing the student to shift away from moral and emotional terms in thinking about conflict, toward frameworks of legal authority instead. March 2007 | 272 pages 0-19-518310-x / 978-0-19-518310-8, PAPERBACK 0-19-518286-3 / 978-0-19-518286-6, HARDBACK
April 2007 | 240 pages
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Elizabeth Mertz, Wisconsin Law School
Prescribing Under Pressure
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Publisher & Distributor of the year 2005 and 2006 Awarded by the Academic, Specialist, and Professional Group of the UK Booksellers Association
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