books for review for Language Policy

[Kendall King]

Dear colleagues,

Below please find a 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 one of these
titles.

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.

In your response, please include your preferred postal address so that, if
available, I may get the book to you quickly.

Please feel free to forward this list to any interested colleagues.

With thanks and best wishes,
Kendall King, Review Editor, Language Policy


Ager, Dennis (2003). Ideology and image: Britain and language. Clevedon,
UK: Multilingual Matters.

Blanchet, Philippe & de Robillard, Didier (Eds.). (2003). Langues,
contacts, complexité: Perspectives théoriques en sociolinguistique. Presses
Universitaires de Rennes.

Braunmüller, Kurt & Ferraresi, Gisella (Eds.). (2003). Aspects of
multilingualism in European language history. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Britain, David & Cheshire, Jenny (Eds.). (2003). Social dialectology: In
honour of Peter Trudgill. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Collins, James & Blot, Richard K. (2003). Literacy and literacies: Texts,
power, and identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Clyne, Michael (2003). Dynamics of language contact. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.

Creese, Angela & Martin, Peter (Eds.). (2003). Multilingual classroom
ecologies: Inter-relationships, interactions and ideologies. Clevedon:
Multilingual Matters.

Daftary, Farimah & Grin, François (2003). Nation-building, ethnicity and
language politics in transition countries. Budapest, Hungary: Open Society
Institute.

Dedaic, Mirjana N. & Nelson, Daniel N. (Eds.). (2003). At war with words.
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

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.

Deumert, Ana & Vandenbussche, Wim (Eds.). (2003). Germanic
standardizations: Past to present. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing
Company.

Freeman, Rebecca (2004). Building on community bilingualism. Philadelphia:
Carson Publishing.

Greenberg, Robert D. (2004). Language and identity in the Balkans:
Serbo-Croatian and its disintegration. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hall, D. Geoffrey & Waxman, Sandra R. (Eds.). (2004). Weaving a lexicon.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Holm, John (2004). Languages in contact: The partial restructuring of
vernaculars. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kurzon, Dennis (2004). Where east look west: Success in English in Goa and
on the Konkan coast. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Makoni, Sinfree, Smitherman, Geneva, Ball, Arnetha F. & Spears, Arthur K.
(Eds.) (2003). Black linguistics: Language, society, and politics in Africa
and the Americas. London: Routledge.

Mansoor, Sabiha, Meriaj, Shaheen & Tahir, Aliya (2004). Language policy
planning and practice: A South Asian perspective. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.

Mazrui, Alamin M. (2004). English in Africa: After the cold war. Clevedon,
UK: Multilingual Matters.

Melchers, Gunnel & Shaw, Philip (2003). World Englishes: An introduction.
London: Arnold.

Patrick, Donna (2003). Language, politics and social interaction in an
Inuit community. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.




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Kendall King, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University
Intercultural Center 458, Washington D.C. 20057
Ph: 202-687-7117        Fax: 202-687-6174
Email: AKK25 at georgetown.edu
www.georgetown.edu/faculty/akk25/
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