Language Policy books for review

Wed Dec 1 10:20:08 UTC 2004

Could you please send any of the books listed below (the order  is that of
preference:
(1) Omoniyi, T.  The sociolinguistics of borderlands: two nations, one
community.

or (2) Mazrui, Alamin M. English in Africa: After the cold war.

or (3) Globalisation and African languages risks and benefits.

My mailing address:
Dr L. Oladipo Salami
Department of English,
Obafemi Awolowo University,
Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

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>Subject: Language Policy books for review
>Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:08:08 -0500
>
>Dear colleagues,
>Below please find the list of books recently received by  _Language
>Policy_.  I invite you to look over the list and respond to me
>(akk25 at georgetown.edu) if you might be interested in reviewing any of these
>titles. (Please include your preferred postal mailing address in your
>response.)
>Reviews are generally 1000 words in length and due three to six months
>after the book has been received by the reviewer. Editorial guidelines and
>more details about the journal are available at
>http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1568-4555/current.
>I would be grateful if you could forward this list to any interested and
>qualified students or colleagues.
>With thanks and best wishes,
>Kendall King
>Review Editor, Language Policy
>
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>Ager, Dennis (2003). Ideology and image: Britain and language. Clevedon,
>UK: Multilingual Matters.
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>Amara, M. & Mar'i, A. (2002). Language education policy: The Arab minority
>in Israel. Boston, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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>Bauman, Richard & Briggs, Charles (2003). Voices of modernity: Language
>ideologies and the Politics of Inequality. Cambridge: Cambridge University
>Press.
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>Britain, David & Cheshire, Jenny (Eds.). (2003). Social dialectology: In
>honour of Peter Trudgill. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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>Bromber, K. & Smieja, B. (Eds.). (2004). Globalisation and African
>languages risks and benefits. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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>Burridge, K. (2002). Blooming English: Observations on the roots,
>cultivation and hybrids of the English language. Cambridge: Cambridge
>University Press.
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>Busch, B. & Kelly-Holmes, H. (2004). Language, discourse, and borders in
>the Yugoslav successor states. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters Ltd.
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>Dedaic, Mirjana N. & Nelson, Daniel N. (Eds.). (2003). At war with words.
>Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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>del Valle, José & Gabriel-Stheeman, Luis (Eds.). (2002). The battle over
>Spanish between 1800 and 2000: Language ideologies and Hispanic
>intellectuals. New York, NY: Routledge.
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>Deumert, Ana & Vandenbussche, Wim (Eds.). (2003). Germanic
>standardizations: Past to present. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing
>Company.
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>Extra, G. & Yagmur, K. (Eds.). (2004). Urban multilingualism in Europe:
>Immigrant minority languages at home and school. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual
>Matters Ltd.
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>Finegan, E. & Rickford, J. (Eds.). (2004). Language in the USA: Themes for
>the twenty-first century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
>
>Gibbons, J. & Ramirez, E. (2004). Maintaining a minority language: A case
>study of Hispanic teenagers. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
>
>Gordon, E.; Campbell, L.; Hay, J.; Maclagan, M.; Sudbury, A.; & Trudgill,
>P. (2004). New Zealand English: Its origins and evolution. Cambridge:
>Cambridge University Press.
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>Gramley, Stephan & Pätzold, Kurt-Michael (2004). A survey of modern English
>(2nd Edition). New York, NY: Routledge.
>
>Grenoble, L. (2003). Language policy in the Soviet Union. Boston,
>Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
>
>Jorgensen, J.N. (Ed). (2003). Bilingualism and social change: Turkish
>speakers in North Western Europe. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters Ltd.
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>Kaplan, R. & Baldauf, R. (2003). Language and language-in-education
>planning in the Pacific Basin. Boston, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic
>Publishers.
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>Kurzon, Dennis (2004). Where east look west: Success in English in Goa and
>on the Konkan coast. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
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>Lefkowitz, D. (2004). Words and stones: The politics of language and
>identity in Israel. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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>Mansoor, Sabiha, Meriaj, Shaheen & Tahir, Aliya (2004). Language policy
>planning and practice: A South Asian perspective. Oxford: Oxford University
>Press.
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>Mazrui, Alamin M. (2004). English in Africa: After the cold war. Clevedon,
>UK: Multilingual Matters.
>
>McRae, John & Carter, Ronald (2004). The Routledge guide to modern English
>writing: Britain and Ireland. New York, NY: Routledge.
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>Muthwii, M.J. & Kioko, A.N. (Eds.). (2004). New language bearings in
>Africa: A fresh quest. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Ltd.
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>Omoniyi, T. (2004). The sociolinguistics of borderlands: Two nations, one
>community. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, Inc.
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>Pavlenko, Aneta & Blackledge, Adrian (2004). Negotiation of identities in
>multilingual contexts. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
>
>Perez, B. (2004). Becoming biliterate:  A study of two-way bilingual
>immersion education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.
>
>Richardson, Elaine (2003). African American literacies. London: Routledge.
>
>Rindler, R.S. (Ed). (2003). Diglossia and power: Language policies and
>practice in the 19th century Habsburg Empire. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
>
>Woods, A. (2004). Medium or message? Language and faith in ethnic
>Cchurches. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
>
>Zhou, M. & Sun, H. (Eds.) (2004). Language policy in the People's Republic
>of China: Theory and practice since 1949. Boston, Massachusetts: Kluwer
>Academic Publishers.
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>Kendall King, Ph.D.
>http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/akk25/
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