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routledge.com>Deborah Cameron, ed,, THE FEMINIST CRITIQUE OF LANGUAGE A Reader Since its first publication in 1990, The Feminist Critique of Language has been the established guide to the major debates and directions in current feminist thinking about language. This edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded to take account of new developments in feminist thought about language, including new material on sexist language and political correctness. New extracts have been included from: Felly Nkweto Simmonds, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Luce Irigaray, Sara Mills, Margaret Doyle, Debbie Cameron, Susan Ehrlich and Ruth King, Kate Clark, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Deborah Tannen, Aki Uchida, Jennifer Coates and Kira Hall. Each section has been subdivided to clarify the key areas of debate and new editorial material and suggested reading sections have been added. Routledge: 1998: 392 pp CL: 0 415 16399 4: #D4787: $75.00 PB: 0 415 16400 1: #D4791: $22.99 Harold F. Schiffman, LINGUISTIC CULTURE AND LANGUAGE POLICY Now available in paperback, Linguistic Culture and Language Policy examines how language policy in three very different nations evolved and how it is not merely the specific embodiment of rule, but rather primarily a social construct that rests on other conceptual elements such as belief systems, attitudes and myths. By scrutinizing the multilingual democracies of India, France and the US, Schiffman examines how language policies are formed within a broader framework and are heavily influenced by the covert and implicit grass-roots of its linguistic culture. By seeing language policy as culture-specific, we understand why language policies evolve, why they work--or not--and how people's lives are affected by them. Politics of Language Routledge: 1998: 368 pp PB: 0 415 18406 1: #D5174: $29.99 Peter Auer, ed,, CODE-SWITCHING IN CONVERSATION Language, Interaction and Identity Collecting contributions from a wide variety of international sociolinguistic settings in which this phenomenon of code-switching is observed, this volume addresses the structure, function and ideological value of such bilingual behavior. The contributors question many views of code-switching on the basis of many European and non-European contexts. By bringing together linguistic, anthropological and socio-psychological research, they move towards a more realistic conception of bilingual conversation. Routledge: 1998: 368 pp CL: 0 415 15831 1: #D3859: $90.00 David Barton and Mary Hamilton, LOCAL LITERACIES Reading and Writing in One Community Local Literacies is a unique study of everyday reading and writing. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community in Britain, the authors analyze how they use literacy in their day to day lives. This exploration provides a description of literacy at one point in time, and also reveals the nature and significance of communication to people, households and communities. Routledge: 1998: 320 pp CL: 0 415 17149 0: #D5178: $90.00 PB: 0 415 17150 4: #D5182: $27.99 For more information on these and other titles from: ROUTLEDGE London * New York in North America: www.routledge-ny.com elsewhere: www.routledge.comMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
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