Book reviewing

One of the hats I wear is that of book review editor of the journal Discourse and Society and as such I am always on the lookout for reviewers. Book reviewing is an important service to the academic community and it’s a great way for graduate students to test the waters of academic publishing. It’s also a nice little barter niche of the academic economy: if you can’t afford to buy that book you desperately want, you can always work for it by doing a book review.

Book reviews in Discourse and Society are usually around a 1,000 words in length and due within 3 months of receipt of the review copy. Reviews should provide an overview of the contents of the book as well as a well-argued judgment regarding its place in the field and its likely importance to the readers of the journal. I do not accept mere content summaries and as always it’s important to know your audience, i.e. to actually get a feel for the journal before starting to write your review.

Currently, I’ve got the books listed below available for review in Discourse and Society. If there is anything in your area of expertise, please feel free to get in touch.

Bassiouney, R. (2009). Arabic sociolinguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Clark, H. (Ed.). (2008). Depression and narrative: telling the dark. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Doerr, N. M. (2009). Meaningful inconsistencies: bicultural nationhood, the free market and schooling in Aotearoa/New Zealand. New York and Oxford: Berghahn.

Falzon, M.-A. (Ed.). (2009). Multi-Sited Ethnography: Theory, Praxis and Locality in Contemporary Research. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Galasinska, A., & Krzyzanowski, M. (Eds.). (2009). Discourse and Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Gardner-Chloros, P. (2009). Code-switching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Garner, M., Wagner, C., & Kawulich, B. (Eds.). (2009). Teaching research methods in the social sciences. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Harden, G. B., & Carley, R. (2009). Co-opting culture: culture and power in sociology and cultural studies. lanham: Lexington Books.

Hasan, R. (2009). Semantic variation: meaning in society and in sociolinguistics. London: Equinox.

Huspek, M. (Ed.). (2009). Oppositional discourses and democracies. London: Routledge.

Hussein, L. M. (2009). the internet discourse of Arab-American groups. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press.

Krinsky, C. (Ed.). (2008). Moral Panics over Contemporary Children and Youth. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Light, J. S. (2009). the nature of cities: ecological visions and the American Urban Professions, 1920-1960. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press.

Ramallo, F., Lorenzo Suarez, A. M., Rodriguez-Yanez, X. P., & Cap, P. (Eds.). (2009). New approaches to discourse and business communication. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Schechet, N. (2009). Disenthralling ourselves: rhetoric of revenge and reconciliation in contemporary Israel. Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Shon, P. C. H. (2008). Language and Demeanor in Police – Citizen Encounters. Lanham et al.: University Press of America.

Simpson, P., & Mayr, A. (2009). Language and power: a resource book for students. London: Routledge.

Stommel, W. (2009). Entering an online support group on eating disorders: a discourse analysis. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Trianfafyllidou, A., Wodak, R., & Krzyzanowski, M. (Eds.). (2009). the European public sphere and the media: Europe in crisis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Vannini, P., & Williams, J. P. (Eds.). (2009). Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society. Aldershot: Ashgate.