Readings
	Required Reading You should complete the required reading each week. Week One Week Two Week Three Week Four Week Five Week Six Week Eight Week Nine Week Ten Week Eleven Week Twelve

Optional Reading

(Here is a list of other books and articles that might be useful to you in this course)

Agar, Michael. 1994. Language shock: Understanding the culture of conversation. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.

Atkinson, Dwight and Douglas Biber. 1994. Register: A review of empirical research. In: Douglas Biber and Edward Finegan (Eds.) Sociolinguistic perspectives on register. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Austin, John. 1962. How to do things with words. Oxford: Clarendon Press

Bennett, Adrian. 1993. Review of James Paul Gee: Social linguistics and literacies: Ideology in Discourses. Language in Society 22:572-576.

Bolton, K. and H. Kwok. 1992. Sociolinguistics Today: Eastern and Western Perspectives. London: Routledge.

Brown, Penelope and Stephen Levinson. 1987. Politeness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cook, Guy. 1989. Discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dant, Tim. 1991. Knowledge, ideology and discourse: A sociological perspective. London: Routledge.

Eagleton, Terry. 1991. Ideology: An introduction. New York: Verso.

Fairclough, N. 1989. Language and power. London: Longman.

Fairclough, Norman. 1989a. Language and ideology. English Language Research Journal 3:9-27.

Fairclough, Norman. 1992. Discourse and social change. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Fairclough, Norman and Ruth Wodak. 1997. Critical discourse analysis. In Teun A. van Dijk (ed.) Discourse as social interaction. London: Sage. 258-284.

Freeman, Norman H. and Gustav M. Habermann. 1996. Linguistic socialization: a Chinese perspective. In: Michael H. Bond, ed., The handbook of Chinese psychology.

Fu, G. S. 1987. The Hong Kong bilingual. In: R. Lord and H. N. L. Cheng (Eds) Language education in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.

Gee, James Paul. 1996. Social linguistics and literacies: Ideology in discourses [Second edition). Bristol, PA: Taylor and Francis Inc..

Gee, James Paul. 1999. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method. London: Routledge.

Goffman, Erving. 1974. Frame analysis. New York: Harper and Row.

Goodwin, Charles. 1981. Conversational organization: Interaction between speakers and hearers. New York: Academic Press.

Gumperz, John. 1982. Language and social identity. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Gumperz, John. 1982. Discourse strategies. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Grice, H. P. 1975. Logic and conversation. In: P. Cole and J. Morgan (eds). Syntax and semantics, Volume 9: Pragmatics. New York: Academic Press.

Hall, Stuart. 1980. Encoding/decoding. In S. Hall, D. Hobson, A. Lowe, and P. Willis (Eds.), Culture, media, language: Working papers in cultural studies 1972-1979, 128-138. London: Hutchinson.

Halliday, M. A. K. 1985. An introduction to functional grammar. London: Edward Arnold.

Halliday, M. A. K. and R. Hasan. 1976. Cohesion in English. London: Longman.

Heath, Shirley Brice. 1983. Ways with words. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Hsu, Francis L. K. 1985. The self in cross-cultural perspective. In: Marsella, Anthony J, George DeVos, and Francis L. K. Hsu (Eds.). Culture and self: Asian and western perspectives. New York: Tavistock Publications.

Hudson, R. A. 1980. Sociolinguistics. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.

Hymes, Dell. 1974. Foundations in sociolinguistics: An ethnographic approach. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Kendon, Adam. 1994. Do gestures communicate?: A review. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 27(3):175-200.

Lakoff, George. 1987. Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.

Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. 1980. Metaphors we live by. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Lakoff, Robin. 1973. The logic of politeness; or, minding your p's and q's. In: Papers from the ninth regional meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, pp. 292-305. Chicago.

Lave, Jean and Etienne Wenger. 1991. Situated learning: legitimate peripheral participation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Li, David C. S. 1996. Issues in bilingualism and biculturalism: A Hong Kong case study. New York: Peter Lang.

Lin, Angel M. Y. 1990. Teaching in two tongues: language alternation in foreign language classrooms. Hong Kong:City Polytechnic of Hong Kong, Department of English Research Report, No. 3.

Lin, Angel M. Y. 1996. Bilingualism or linguistic segregation? Symbolic domination, resistance and code-switching in Hong Kong schools. Linguistics and Education, 8, 49-84.

Philipsen, Gerry. 1992. Speaking culturally: Exploration in social communication. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.

Saville-Troike, Muriel. 1989. The ethnography of communication. Oxford:Basil Blackwell Ltd.

Schiffrin, Deborah. 1994. Approaches to discourse. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Scollon, Ron and Suzanne Wong Scollon. 1995. Intercultural communication: A discourse approach. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Scollon, Ron and Suzanne B. K. Scollon. 1983. Face in interethnic communication. In: Jack Richards and Richard Schmidt (Eds.) Language and communication. London: Longman.

Searle, John R. 1969. Speech acts. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Tannen, D. 1979. What’s in a frame? In Freedle, R.O. (ed.) New directions in discourse processing, Norwood, N.J.: Ablex. pp. 137-181.

Tannen, D. 1980. A comparative analysis of oral narrative strategies: Athenian Greek and American English. In W. L. Chafe (ed.) The pear stories: cognitive, cultural, and linguistic aspects of narrative production, Norwood, NJ: Ablex. pp. 51-87.

Tannen, Deborah. 1984. Conversational style: Analyzing talk among friends. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Tannen, Deborah. 1986. That's Not What I Meant! New York: Ballentine Books.

Tannen, Deborah. 1994. Talking from 9 to 5: How women's and men's conversational styles affect who gets heard, who gets credit, and what dets done at work. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.

Watanabe, S. (1990). Cultural differences in framing: American and Japanese group discussions. In Tannen D. (ed.) Framing in discourse, New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 176-209.

Wenger E. 1998. Communities of practice: Learning, meaning and identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wertsch, James V. 1991. Voices of the mind: a sociocultural approach to mediated action. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Wodak, Ruth. 1996. Disorders of discourse. New York: Addison Wesley Longman.