Multiple copies of these books are also available
on reserve in the library. See Course Reserve
List for listing of books on reserve by week.
See Class Schedule for listings of specific
required and supplementary readings from these books, as well as articles
and excerpts on reserve in folders in the library.
Books with substantial assigned readings:
- Raymond Williams. Marxism and literature. [Eng.] : Oxford University Press, 1977.
- Yaguello, Marina. Language through the Looking Glass: Exploring Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998 (1981).
- Austin, J.L. How to Do Things with Words. Cambridge: Harvard Univ Pr; 2nd edition (September 1975).
- Derrida, Jacques. Limited, inc., Evanston: Northwestern Univ. Press, 1988.
- Bourdieu, Pierre. Language and symbolic power ; edited and introduced by John B. Thompson ; translated by Gino Raymond and Matthew Adamson, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991.
- Bakhtin, Mikhail. The dialogic imagination : four essays; edited by Michael Holquist ; translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist Austin : University of Texas Press, c1981.
- Keane, Webb. Signs of recognition : powers and hazards of representation in an Indonesian society, Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997.
- Briggs, Charles. 1990 (1986). Learning How to Ask: A Sociolinguistic Appraisal of the role of the Interview in Social Science Research. Cambridge University Press.
Recommended Books (for reference or only a portion assigned, only a few copies available)
- Duranti, Alessandro, ed. Key Terms in Language and Culture. Blackwell, 2001. (a few copies)
- Brenneis and Macaulay, eds. The Matrix of Language. Boulder: Westview press, 1998.
- Goffman, Erving. Forms of talk. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.(a few copies)
- Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 1990. (a few copies)
- -----------. Excitable speech : a politics of the performative. New York : Routledge, 1997. (a few copies)