LATEST NEW JOURNAL ALERTS RECEIVED (Jan / Feb 2010)

INFORMAWORLD:
Language and Education: Vol 14 Issue 1, 2010. Interesting article:
Imagining higher education as a multilingual space. Siân Preece & Peter Martin. Pages 3 – 8.

CAMBRIDGE JOURNALS ONLINE:
Journal of Child Language. Volume 37 - Issue 01 - January 2010. Interesting book reviews:
Jean Berko Gleason (ed.), The development of language, 6th edn. Boston, MA: Pearson, 2005. Pp. 516. ISBN 0205394140. / Thea Cameron-FaulknerDanielle Matthews, Ludovica Serratrice
Robert E. Owens, Language development: An introduction, 7th edn. Boston, MA: Pearson, 2008. Pp. 509. ISBN 0023901810. / Thea Cameron-FaulknerDanielle Matthews, Ludovica Serratrice
William O'Grady, How children learn language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 248. ISBN 0521531926 (paperback). / Thea Cameron-FaulknerDanielle Matthews, Ludovica Serratrice

Applied Psycholinguistics. Volume 31 - Issue 01 - January 2010. Interesting article:
The home language environment of monolingual and bilingual children and their language proficiency / Anna F Scheelepaul P. M. Leseman, Aziza Y Mayo


Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Volume 13 - Special Issue 01 - January 2010. Special Issue on New Perspectives on L1 Attrition. Interesting article:
The effects of contact on native language pronunciation in an L2 migrant setting / Esther de Leeuw, Monika S. Schmid and Ineke Mennen

Language in Society Volume 39 - Issue 01 - February 2010. Interesting book reviews:
Derek Bousfield & Miriam A. Locher (eds.), Impoliteness in language: Studies on its interplay with power in theory and practice. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008. Pp viii, 346. Hb $125.00. / Maria Sifianou
Martin Montgomery, An introduction to language and society. 3rd edition. New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. xx, 314. Pb $30.95. / Stephanie Lindemann
Helen Spencer-Oatey, Culturally speaking: Culture, communication and politeness theory (2nd edition). London & New York: Continuum, 2008. Pp. xii, 372. Pb $39.95. / Elaine W. Vine
Charlotte Linde, Working the past: Narrative and institutional memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. vii, 249. Hb $24.95. / Summerson Carr
Theo van Leeuwen, Discourse and practice: New tools for critical discourse analysis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. ix, 172. Pb $29.95. / Song Guo

The Journal of Modern African Studies Volume 48 - Issue 01 - March 2010. Interesting reviews on:
Gender and Sexuality in African Literature and Film edited and introduced by Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Maureen Ngozi Eke Trenton, NJ: African World Press, 2007. Pp. 333, US$34.95 (pbk). / Lauren Fielder Redman
Washed With the Sun: landscape and the making of white South Africa by Jeremy Foster Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008. Pp. 336, US$27.95 (pbk). / Heather Deegan
Southern Africa by Jonathan Farley London: Routledge, 2008. Pp. 176, US$29.95 (pbk). / Andrew Offenburger
Democracy and the Rise of Women's Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa by Kathleen M. Fallon Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp. 168, US$50.00 (hbk). / Andrea Brown

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Volume 73 - Issue 01 - February 2010. Interesting book reviews on:
Frances Wood: The Lure of China: Writers from Marco Polo to J. G. Ballard. iv, 283 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. £19.99. ISBN 978 0 300 15436 8. / T. H. Barrett
Ninian Smart: World Philosophies. (2nd edition. Edited by Oliver Leaman.) xi, 564 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2008. £80. ISBN 978 0 415 41188 2. / Brian Bocking
Chua Beng Huat and Koichi Iwabuchi (eds): East Asian Pop Culture: Analysing the Korean Wave. (TransAsia: Screen Cultures.) xi, 307 pp. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008. ISBN 978 962 209 893 0. / Keith Howard

SAGE JOURNALS ONLINE:
Language Testing Online Vol. 27 No. 1 Jan 2010. Interesting book review:
Shaw SD and Weir CJ (2007): Examining writing: research and practice in assessing second language writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Volume 26, Studies in Language Testing, edited by M Milanovic and C Weir). 358 pp. ISBN: 978—0521692939. US $51.00 / Sara Cushing Weigle

WILEY INTERSCIENCE:
Educational Philosophy and Theory Volume 42, Issue 1, 2010. Interesting article:
Avoiding an Intolerant Society: Why respect of difference may not be the best approach / Peter A Balint.