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Lexicalization and Language Change
Laurel J. Brinton (UBC) & Elizabeth Traugott (Stanford)
Lexicalization, a process of language change, has been conceived in a variety of ways. In this up-to-date survey, Laurel Brinton and Elizabeth Traugott examined the various ideas that have been presented. In light of contemporary work on grammaticalization, they then propose a new, unified model of lexicalization and grammaticalization. Their approach is illustrated with a variety of case studies from the history of English, including present participles, multi-word verbs, adverbs, and discourse markers, as well as some examples from other Indo-European languages.

Syntactic Change: A minimalist approach to grammaticalization
Ian Roberts & Anna Roussou

The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics Vol. 1
Ed. Hai Tan Li (U Hong Kong), Elizabeth Bates (UCSD), Ovid J.L. Tzeng (Academia Sinica), Ping Li (U of RIchmond)
Spoken by one-fifth of the world's population, Chinese differs significantly from most Indo-European languages in its grammar, lexicon, and written and spoken froms--features which have profound implications for the learning, representation and processing of language. The first in a three-volume set on East Asian psycholinguistics, this handbook includes contributions by over 50 leading scholars. It covers topics in first and second language acquisition, language processing and reading.

Communication in Medication Care: Interaction between primary care physicains and patients
John Heritage (UCLA) & Douglas Maynard (U Wisconsin)
Providing a comprehensive discussion of communication between doctors and patients in primary care consultations, this volume brings together a team of leading contributors from the fields of linguistics, sociology and medicine to describe each phase of the primary care consultation. The authors use conversation analysis techniques to analyze the sequential unfolding of a visit and describe the dilemmas and conflicts faced by physicians and patients as they work through the visit. The result is a view of the medical encounter that reveals the perspective of both physicians and patients rationally.
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In Other Words: Variation and Reference in Narrative
Deborah Schiffrin
Deborah Schiffrin looks at two important tasks of language-- presenting "who" we are talking about (the referent) and "what happened" to them (their actions and attributes) in a narrative--and explores how this presentation alters in relation to emergent forms and meanings. Drawing on exammples from both face-to-face talk and public discourse, she analyzes a variety of repairs, reformulations of referents, and retelling of narratives, ranging from word-level repairs within a single turn-at-talk, to life story narratives told years apart.

Language and Sexuality
Deborah Cameron (U London) & Don Kulick (NYU)

Language and Gender
Penelope Eckert (Stanford) & Sally McConnell-Ginet (Cornell)

Language and the Internet
David Crystal

Sign Language and Linguistic Universals
Wendy Sandler & Diane Lillo-Martin (U Connecticut)
Sign languages are of great interest to linguists because, while they are produced by the same brain, their physical transmission differs greatly from that of spoken languages. Wendy Sandler and Diane Lillo-Martin compare spoken languages with those that are signed, in order to seek universal properties of human languages. No prior background in sign language linguistics is assumed, and numerous pictures are provided to make descriptions accessible to readers.

Gesture: Visible action as utterance
Adam Kendon(U Penn)
Gesture, or visible bodily action intimately involved in the activity of speaking, has long fascinated scholars and laymen alike. Written by a leading authority on the subject, this book draws on the analysis of everyday conversations conversations to demonstrate the varied role of gestures in the construction of utterances. Publication of this definitive account of the topic marks a major development in semiotics as well as in the emerging field of gesture studies.

Discourse and Identity
Ed. Anna De Fina (Georgetown), Deborah Schiffrin (Georgetown) & Michael Bamberg (Clark)
This volume brings together a team of leading experts to explore discourse and identity in a range of social contexts. By applying a variety of new analytical tools and concepts, the contributors demonstrate how we build images of ourselves through language, how society moulds us into different categories, and how we negotiate our membership of those categories. Drawing on numerous interactional settings (the workplace, medical interviews, education), in a variety of genres (narrative, conversation, interviews) and amongst different communities (immigrants, patients, adoleschents, teachers), this revealing volumes sheds new light on how our social practices can help to shape our identities.



Forthcoming

Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language
Keith Allan & Kate Burridge
Many words and expressions are viewed as taboo, such as those used to describe sex, our bodies and their functions, as well as those used to insult other people. This book provides a fascinating insight into taboo language and its role in everyday life. It looks at the ways we use language to be polite or impolite, politically correct or offensive, depending on whether we are "sweet-talking", "straight-talking" or being deliberately rude. Using a range of colorful examples, it shows how we use language in order to swear or insult, and also to be politically correct, and what our motivations are for doing so.

Chinese Englishes: A sociolinguistic history
Kinsley Bolton

The Social Stratification of English in New York City
William Labov
Second edition of Labov's groundbreaking Social Stratification of English in NYC (1966). By examining pronunciation in three New York department stores, he showed variation to have a regular structure--with different pronunciation being linked to factors such as social class and age--rather than being "chaotic" as was previously assumed.

Chinese: A Linguistic Introduction
Chaofen Sun (Stanford)
Spoken by more people than any other language in the world, Chinese has a rich social, cultural and historical background. This comprehensive guide to its linguistic structure provides an accessible introduction to each of the key areas.

Reporting Talk
Rebecca Clift & Elizabeth Holt
Reported speech, whereby we quote the words of others, is used in many different types of interaction. In this revealing study, a team of leading experts explore how reported speech is designed, the actions it is used to perform, and how it fits into the environments in which it is used. Using the most recent techniques of conversation analysis, the authors show how speech is reported in a wide range of contexts-- including ordinary conversation, storytelling, news interviews, courtroom trials and medium-sitter interactions. Providing detailed analyses of reported speech in naturally-occurring talk, the authors examine existing linguistic and sociological studies, and offer some pioner\ering new insights into the phenomenon. Bringing together work from the most recent investigations in conversation analysis, this book will be invaluable to all those interested in the study of interaction, in particular how we report the speech of others, and the different forms this can take.