JLA Books for Review

[JLA Book Review Editor]

As the Editor of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, I am circulating
this list of books that we have received or still have that we are looking
for reviewers for.  In addition, potential reviewers are encouraged to go
through our past and future publications received lists.  Please contact me
by email at jlaeditor at gmail.com should you be interested in reviewing one of
these books.

Paul Manning
Editor, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Department of Anthropology, Trent University
jlaeditor at gmail.com

Publications Received
Bayley, Robert and Ceil Lucas.  2007.  Sociolinguistic Variation: Theories,
Methods, and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xiii + 405
pp.

Beriss,David. 2004. Black Skins, French Voices: Caribbean Ethnicity and
Activism in Urban France. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. xx + 156 pp.

Blommaert, Jan. 2005. Discourse: Key Topics in Sociolinguistics. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. xiii + 299 pp.

Cienki, Alan and Cornelia Müller (eds.). 2008.  Metaphor and Gesture.
Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.  ix + 306 pp.

Clackson, James. 2007.  Indo-European Linguistics.  Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.  xxii + 260 pp.

Coupland, Nikolas. 2007.  Style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
xiii+206 pp.

Doniger, Wendy. 2006.  The Woman who Pretended to be who She was: Myths of
Self-Imitation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. xii+ 263 pp. 

Georgakopoulou, Alexandra. 2007. Small Stories, Interaction and Identities.
Studies in Narrative 8. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. xii +
186 pp.

Heine, Bernd and Derek Nurse. 2008. A Linguistic Geography of Africa.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  xviii + 371 pp.

Hodges, Adam and Chad Nilep, editors. 2007.  Discourse, War and Terrorism.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. vi +248 pp.

Houston, Stephen, ed. 2008. The First Writing: Script Invention as History
and Process. Reprint. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xvii + 417 pp. 

Jourdan, Christine and Kevin Tuite. 2006. Language, Culture, and Society:
Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language 23. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. xi + 310 pp.

Léglise, Isabelle and Bettina Migge, (eds.). 2007.  Pratiques et
représentations linguistiques en Guyane - Regards croisés.  Paris: IRD.  488
pp.

LeVine,  Robert A. and Rebecca S. New, (eds.). 2008. Anthropology and Child
Development: A Cross-Cultural Reader. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. x + 324
pp.

Maclaury, Robert, Galina Paramei and Don Dedrick, eds. 2007. The
Anthropology of Color.  Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. xvii +
485.

Monaghan, Leila and Jane E. Goodman (eds.). 2007.  A Cultural Approach to
Interpersonal Communication. Essential Readings. Malden MA: Blackwell.  xiii
+ 576 pp.

Simpson, Andrew, (ed). 2008.  Language and National Identity in Africa.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.  xiii + 367.

Tannen, Deborah. 2007.  Talking Voices.  Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. x + 233 pp.  

Wei, Li, and Melissa Moyer.  2008. Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in
Bilingualism and Multilingualism.  Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.  xvii +
403.

Woodard, Roger D.  2008. The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and
Arabia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xix + 262 pp.

Woodard, Roger D.  2008.  The Ancient Languages of Asia and the Americas.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  xix+ 264 pp.