LINGUIST List 4.1069

Fri 17 Dec 1993

Books: Sociolinguistics, dialectology, pidgins

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    Message 1: Sociolinguistics, dialectology, pidgins

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    SOCIOLINGUISTICS

    Fernandez, Mauro (comp.) DIGLOSSIA. A COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1960-1990, AND SUPPLEMENTS. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY W.F. MACKEY John Benjamins 1993 lii, 472 pp. Sociolinguistics Cloth US:1 55619 253 3/EUR:90 272 3749 2 US$100.00/Hfl. 185,-- This first comprehensive bibliography of the subject includes almost 3000 entries, including several dozen before 1960 and a substantial number in the period 1990-1992. All available publications in which the term appears, despite its varied definitions, have been included. In addition there are six indexes.

    IHDE, Thomas W., ed. (Montclair State College/Trinity College Dublin), 1994: The Irish Language in the United States: A Historical, Sociolinguistic, and Applied Linguistic Survey. Bergin & Garvey: Westport, CT & London. ISBN 0-89789-331-X [cloth] 184 pages, $47.95 + $3.50 Shipping & Handling in U.S., Greenwood Publications Group, Westport, CT (credit card orders 1-800-225-5800). Publication Date: 30 Nov. 1993. This collection of essays reflects on the history of the Irish language in America, the role the language plays in Irish-American identity and different approaches used to acquire the language by L2 learners in the States. More information on contents is available from the editor at ihdeapollo.montclair.edu.

    DIALECTOLOGY

    Clarke, Sandra (eds) FOCUS ON CANADA John Benjamins 1993 xii, 296 pp. Dialectology Paper US:1 55619 442 0/EUR:90 272 4869 9 US$59.00/Hfl.110,-- A welcome addition to our linguistic knowledge of English-speaking Canada, topics range from general issues in Canadian lexicography and orthography to sociolinguistic studies of varieties of English spoken in all major geographical areas of the country: Atlantic, Canada, Ontario, Quebec and the West.

    PIDGINS AND CREOLES

    Byrne, Francis & Donald Winford. (eds) FOCUS AND GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS IN CREOLE LANGUAGES. PAPERS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CONFERENCE ON FOCUS AND GRAMMARICAL RELATIONS IN CREOLE LANGUAGES. John Benjamins 1993 xvi, 329 pp. Pidgins and Creoles Cloth US:1 55619 166 9/EUR:90 272 5233 5 US$55.00/Hfl.100,-- Discusses the formal constructions and devices which creole languages syntactically utilize to achieve constituent focus, and the many other phenomena and processes that highlight sentence-level elements. Contributions by: Bickerton, Byrne & Caskey, Byrne, Caskey & Winford, Escure, Kihm, Lefebvre & Ritter, Lumsden, Manfredi, Mufwene, Muysken, Oyhlar`n, G. Sankoff, Seuren, Spears.