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& SOCIETY
Eighth call for book reviewers:
Discourse and Society is a journal founded in July
1990, editor Teun van Dijk, University of Amsterdam;
publisher: Sage. It has attracted over 750 subscribers,
and appears set to establish itself as central to the
rapidly expanding field of discourse analysis.
Since January 1991 the journal has appeared four times
yearly, and has carried about twenty-five reviews, each
year. The books listed below are available for review
either as single volumes or jointly.
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On receiving a book you will be asked to judge its
relevance to the concerns of Discourse and Society.
There are three categories to choose from:
1. Books apparently central to the concerns of
Discourse and Society.
2. Books which address an area to which discourse
analysis has contributed. If having requested such a
book, you find it not relevant to the journal's
interests, please report this to the review editor
who may permit you to keep the title without review.
3. Books which appear marginal to the concerns of
Discourse and Society. You may request these titles
on the basis that if they are relevant to the
journal's interests you will review them but if not,
you will keep them without review.
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Mona Baker. In other words; a course book on
translation. London: Routledge. 1992. x+304.
M. Barke and G. Turnbull. Meadowell: the biography of an
'estate with problems'. UK: Avebury. 1992. 159.
Regina Barreca. New Perspectives on Women and Comedy:
studies in Gender & Culture Vol 5. USA: Gordon &
Breach. 1992. xii+244.
M. Billig. Talking of the Royal Family. UK: Routledge.
1992. 244.
R.Blom. Et Al The Scope Logic Approach to Class
Analysis. UK: Avebury. 1992. 239.
Nancy Roundy Blyler and Charlotte Thralls, ed. (1993)
Professional Communication: the social perspective.
Newbury Park/London/New Delhi: Sage. xv+292. ė14.95.
8039-3935-3.
P. Bērger. The Decline of Modernism. Cambridge:
Polity. 1992. vii+189.
Peter Burke. History and Social Theory. Cambridge:
Polity. 1992. ix+198. ė35.00 (hb) ė10.95 (pb).
0745607365 (hb) 0745607373 (pb).
Craig Calhoun, Edward LiPuma and Moishe Postone, ed.
(1993) Bourdieu: critical perspectives. Cambridge:
Polity Press. viii+288. ė12.95. 0745611303.
Peter Collins. Cleft and Pseudo Cleft Constructions in
English. London: Routledge . 1991. xvi+230.
Simon Cottle. TV News, Urban Conflict, and the Inner
City. Studies in Communication and Society. Leicester:
University Press. 1993. xiii+252.
D. Dawkins. Power and Politics in Educatio. London:
Falmer Press . 1991. 290.
Robert D. Denham, ed. (1993) Northrop Frye: the eternal
act of creation. Bloomington: Indiana U.P. xix+188.
ė20. 0253-32516-1.
Teun van Dijk. Elite Discourse and Racism. Vol. 6 of
Sage Series on Race and Ethnic Relations. Newbury
Park/London/New Delhi: Sage. 1993. xii+320. ė15.95(pb)
ė37.50(hb). 0-8039-5071-3 (pb) 0-8039-5071-3 (hb).
Jane A. Edwards and Martin D. Lambert, ed. (1993) Talking
Data: transcription and coding in discourse research.
Hillsdale, NJ/Hove & London, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates. iv+325. $27.50. 0-8058-0349-1.
Theresa Enos and Stuart C. Brown, ed. (1992) Defining the
new Rhetorics. Sage Series in Written Communication.
Newbury Park/London/New Delhi: Sage. xiii+265. ė15.50
(pb) . 8039-4271-0.
Erika Fischer-Lichte. The Semiotics of Theatre.
Advances in Semiotics. Trans. Jeremy Gaines and Doris L.
Jones. Abridged English translation ed. Bloomington,
IA, ISA: Indian University Press. 1993. vii+336. ė40.
0253322375.
Mohsen Ghadessy. Register Analysis: theory and practice.
London: Pinter. 1993. x+302. ė49.50. 1-85567-123-9 (hb)
Anthony Giddens. New Rules of Sociological Method: a
positive critique of interpretive sociologies. Second
ed. Cambridge: Polity Press. 1993. viii+186. ė11.95. 0-
7456-1117-6.
Kent Greenawalt. Speech, Crime, and the Uses of
Language. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1992. ix+349. ė15. 0-19-507711-3 (pb) .
Paul Hainsworth, ed. (1992) The Extreme Right in Europe
and the USA. London: Pinter. xiv+320.
Michael L. Hecht,Mary Jane Collier andSidney A. Ribeau.
African American Communication: ethnic identity and
cultural interpretation. Vol. 2 of Language and Language
Behaviours. Newbury Park/London/New Delhi: Sage. 1993.
xv+224. ė14.95. 0-8039-4515-9 (hb) 0-8039-4516-7 (pb) .
Willie Henderson,Tony Dudley-Evans andRoger Backhouse,
ed. (1993) Economics and Language. Economics as Social
Theory. London/New York: Routledge. x+251. ė40 (hb)
ė14.99 (pb). 0415 08159 9 (hb) 0415 09209 4 (pb).
Jane H. Hill and Judith T. Irvine, ed. (1993)
Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse. Studies
in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language.
Cambridge: University Press. viii+316. ė14.95 (pb) ė40
(hb). 0521-42529-8 (pb) 0521-41515-2 (HB).
Robert Hodge and Gunther Kress. Language as Ideology.
2nd ed. London/New York: Routledge. 1993. xiv+230.
ė11.99. 0 415 07001 5.
J. Horton and P. Nicholson, ed. (1992) Toleration:
philosphy & practice. UK: Avebury. 189.
Adam Jaworski. The Power of Silence: social and
pragmatic perspectives. Language and Language
Behaviours. Newbury Park/London/New Delhi: Sage. 1993.
xiv+189. 0-8039-4966-9(hb) 0-8039-4967-7(pb) .
Philip Jenkins. Intimate Enemies: moral panics in
contemporary Great Britain. Social Problems and Social
Issues. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter & Co. 1992.
DM95 (hb) DM49 (pb). 3-11-013828-X (hb) 3-11-013827-1
(pb).
G. Kaplan. Contemporary Western European Feminism. UK:
Allen & Unwin. 1992. 340.
Pat Kirkham and Jane Thumim, ed. (1993) You Tarzan:
masculinity, movies and men. London: Lawrence &
Wishart. 221. ė14.99. 0-85315-778-2 (pbk).
Caroline Knowles. Race, Discourse, and Labourism.
London: Routledge . 1992. xii+206.
Robin Tolmach Lakoff and James C. Coyne. Father Knows
Best: the use and abuse of power in Freud's case of Dora.
Athene Series. New York: Teachers' College Press. 1993.
viii+149. $16.95 (pb) $36.00 (hb) . 0-8077-6266-0 (hb)
0-8077-6267-9 (pb) .
Jean-Francois Lyotard. Political Writings. Trans. Bill
Readings and Kevin Paul Geiman. London: UCL Press Ltd.
1993. xxxvi+352. ė38 (hb) ė13.95 (pb). 1-85728-129-2
(pb) 1-85728-128-4 (hb).
Bashir Maan. The new Scots: the story of Asians in
Scotland. Edinburgh : John Donald. 1992. viii+216.
Anna Makolkin. Name, hero, icon: semiotics of
nationalism through heroic biography. Approaches to
Semiotics. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter & Co.
1992. xv+264. DM148. 3-11-013012-2.
John Anthony Maltese. Spin Control: the Whilte House
office of communications and the management of
presidential news. Chapel Hill/London: University of
North Carolina Press. 1992. xi+297. $29.95. 0-8078-2034-
2.
Patricia Mellencamp. High Anxiety: catastrophe, scandal,
age and comedy. Bloomington, IA: Indian University
Press. 1992. xvi+414. 0-253-20735-5.
Sarah Nettleton. Power, Pain and Dentistry.
Buckingham: Open University Press. 1992. ė32.50 (hb)
ė12.99 (pb). 0 335 09723 5 (hb) 0 335 09722 7 (pb).
Jane Oakhill and Alan Garnham, ed. (1992) Discourse
Representation and Text Processing. Special Issue of
Language and Cognitive Processes. Hove, UK/Hillsdane,
USA: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 193-395.
E. Orlandi and W.W. Geraldi, ed. (1990) Cadernos de
Estudos Linguisticos 19. Campinas, Brazil:
Unicamp/IEL. 179. ISSN 0102-5767.
Jan Nederveen Pieterse, ed. (1993) Emancipations, Modern
and Postmodern. London/Newbury Park/New Delhi: Sage.
324. .952. 8039-8781-1.
Vincent Price. Public Opinion: "Communication Concepts
4". London: Sage. 1992.
Nigel Rapport. Diverse World-Views in an English
Village. Edinburgh: University Press. 1993. xii+212.
ė30. 0-7486-0417-0 (hbk).
Scott C. Ratzan, ed. (1993) AIDS-Effective Health
Communication for the 90s. Bristol/London: Taylor &
Francis. ė28. 1-56032-273-X.
Naomi Segal. The Adulteress's Child: authorship and
desire in the nineteenth century novel. Cambridge:
Polity. 1992. viii+257. ė39.50. 0745605095 (hb).
John Shotter. Cultural Politics of Everyday Life: social
constructionism, rhetoric, and knowing of the third kind.
Buckingham: Open University Press. 1993. xv+240. ė12.99
(pb) ė37.50 (hb). 0-335-19120-7.
Roger W. Shuy. Language Crimes: the use and abuse of
language evidence in the courtroom. Oxford: Blackwell.
1992. xxii+208. ė30. 0631186182.
Maria Teresa Sierra. Discurso Cultura y Poder: El
ejercicio de la autoridad en los pueblos hnahnus del
Valle del Mezquital. Hidalgo: Estado de Hidalgo, Centro
de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia
Social. 1992. 281. 968-4962-05-03.
William S. Solomon and Robert W. McChesney, ed. (1993)
Ruthless Criticism: new perspectives in US Communication
History. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota
Press. viii+389. 0-8166-2170-5.
Jean Starobinski. Blessings in Disguise or, the Morality
of Evil. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge: Polity.
1993. 235. ė39.50. 0745608515.
W.B. Stiles. Describing Talk: a taxonomy of verbal
response modes. London: Sage. 1992.
Peter G. Stromberg. Language and Self-transformation: a
study of the Christian conversion narrative. Cambridge:
University Press. 1993. xvi+148. ė30. 0521044077-7.
P. Sulkunen. The European New Middle CLass. UK:
Avebury. 1992. 183.
Talbot Taylor. Mutual Misunderstanding: scepticism and
the theorizing of language and interpretation. London:
Routledge. 1992. ix+266. ė12.99 (pb) . 0-415-06395-7
(pb) .
Jim Thomas. Dong Critical Ethnography. Vol. 26 of
Qualitative Research Methods. Newbury Park/London/New
Delhi: Sage. 1993. vii+81. ė6.95. 8039-3923-X.
G. Vattimo. The Transparent Society. Cambridge, UK:
Polity Press. 1992. v+129.
Benno Werlen. Society, Action and Space: an alternative
human geography. Trans. Gayna Walls. English edn. ed.
London/New York: Routledge. 1993. xvi+249. 0-415-06966-
1.
L. T. Wilkins. Punishment, Crime, and Market Forces.
UK: Dartmouth. 1991.
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You may also ask me to obtain books for you to review. I
hope to develop D&S into an authoritative review
journal, during the course of the next three years.
Ideally, every publication in the field of discourse
analysis would receive at least a brief review. For this
to occur, a reliable panel of reviewers must be built,
which takes time. Please consider joining my panel!
Reviewers for D&S should aim at a length of only 600
words, a little more for joint reviews. Reviews should be
submitted within three months. Further particulars will
be sent to you with the book(s).
Brian Torode [bitnet: bto...@tcd.ie ]
Reviews Editor
Discourse & Society
Department of Sociology
Trinity College
Dublin 2
Ireland
wmkr...@athena.mit.edu
Please send me any information on your special interest group.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
William Kramer (wmkr...@athena.mit.edu)