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Publisher: Cambridge University Press http://www.cup.org Journal Title: Language in Society Volume Number: 33 Issue Number: 2 Issue Date: April 2004 Main text: For more information, including abstracts, a free sample issue, secure online ordering plus the full text of articles if your library subscribes, visit: http://journals.cambridge.org/phpAds/adclick.php?bannerid=1980 Contents Cultural standing in expression of opinion CLAUDIA STRAUSS Conversational performance and the poetic construction of an ideology GAIL SHUCK Gender and conversational dominance in Japanese conversation HIROKO ITAKURA, AMY B. M. TSUI "I'm a woman but I know God leads my way": Agency and Tzotzil evangelical discourse AKESHA BARON BOOK REVIEWS ROY HARRIS (ed.), The language myth in Western culture. Pp. 227. London: Curzon Press, 2002. Hb $90.00. Peter M�hlh�usler KAPLAN, ROBERT B. (ed.), The Oxford handbook of applied linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 641. Hb $74.00. Elizabeth Grace Winkler DAVID C. S. LI (ed.), Discourses in search of members: In honor of Ron Scollon. Baltimore: University Press of America, 2001. Pp. xv, 640. Hb $75.00. Hailong Tian JOY KREEFT PEYTON, PEG GRIFFIN, WALT WOLFRAM, & RALPH FASOLD (eds.), Language in action: New studies of language in society: Essays in honor of Roger W. Shuy. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 608. Hb $120.00, Pb $37.50. Chaoqun Xie, Bingyun Li NORBERT FRANCIS & JON REYHNER, Language and literacy teaching for indigenous education: A bilingual approach. Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, 2002. Pp. viii, 275. Pb $39.95. Cynthia Groff ARIN BAYRAKTAROGLU and MARIA SIFIANOU (eds.), Linguistic politeness across boundaries: The case of Greek and Turkish. Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, 88. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2001. Pp. xiv, 439. Hb $125. Marina Terkourafi JAMES LOCKHART (ed.), Grammar of the Mexican language, with an explanation of its adverbs [Compendio del arte de la lengua mexicana] (1645), by Horacio Carochi, S.J. UCLA Latin American Studies, 89. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. 544. Hb $65.00; and JAMES LOCKHART, Nahuatl as written: Lessons in older Nahuatl, with copious examples and texts. UCLA Latin American Studies, 88. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2001. Pp. 264. Hb $45.00, Pb $29.95. Henrik Bergqvist Lingfield: SociolinguisticsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue