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Pages 239-264 | Published online: 16 Jun 2008
 

Text Encoding Initiative: Background and Context. Edited by Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. 242 pp. £60.00 (hb), £0.00 (pb). ISBN 0 7923 3689 5 (hb); 0 7923 3704 2 (pb)

Dimensions of Register Variation: A Cross‐Linguistic Comparison. By Douglas Biber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xviii + 428 pp. ISBN 0 521 47331 4 (hb)

Evolutionary Language Understanding. By Geoffrey Sampson. London: Cassell Academic, 1996. vii + 197 pp. £49.95 (hb). ISBN 0 304 33650 5 (hb)

Chasing the Sun. Dictionary‐Makers and the Dictionaries They Made. By Jonathan Green. London: Jonathan Cape, 1996. 423 pp. £25 (hb), £15 (pb). ISBN 0 224 04010 3 (hb); 0 711 26621 6 (pb)

A History of the English Language. By Norman F. Blake. Basingstoke & London: Macmillan, 1996. xv + 382 pp. £40.00 (hb), £12.99 (pb). ISBN 0 333 60983 2 (hb); ISBN 0 333 60984 0 (pb)

Ideology and Linguistic Theory. Noam Chomsky and the Deep Structure Debates. By G.J. Huck and J.A. Goldsmith. London: Routledge, 1995. x + 186 pp. £19.99 (hb). ISBN 0 415 11735 6 (hb)

The Impossible Dream: The Search for the Perfect Language. By Umberto Eco. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. x + 385 pp. £20.00 (hb). ISBN 0 631 17465 6 (hb). Series The Making of Europe. Series Editor: Jacques Le Goff.

Maurice Blanchot: The Demand of Writing. Edited by Carolyn Bailey Gill. Warwick Studies in European Philosophy. Edited by Andrew Benjamin. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. xiii + 234 pp. £45.00 (hb), £14.99 (pb). ISBN 0 415 10122 0 (hb); 0 415 12596 0 (pb)

Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer. By Roger Chartier. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. 144 pp. £27.50 (hb), £11.95 (pb). ISBN 0 8122 33026 (hb). ISBN 0 8122 1546 X (pb)

Writing and European Thought, 1600—1830. By Nicholas Hudson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 240 pp. £32.50 (hb); 0 521 45540 5 (hb)

The Object of Literature. By Pierre Macherey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xiv + 240 pp. £35.00 (hb). ISBN 0 521 41955 7 (hb)

Cunning Passages: New Historicism, Cultural Materialism and Marxism in the Contemporary Literary Debate. By Jeremy Hawthorn. London: Arnold, 1996. x + 245 pp. £35.00 (hb), £12.99 (pb). ISBN 0 340 66308 1 (hb); 0 340 59853 0 (pb)

Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema. By Murray Smith. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. x + 265 pp. £35.00 (hb), £13.99 (pb). ISBN 0 19 818240 6 (hb); 0 19 818347 X (pb)

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