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Reviews the books 'Lexical Phonology and the History of English,' by April McMahon; 'The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800: Theories, Descriptions, Conflicts,' edited by Laura Wright.

Reviews the book `From Old English to Standard English: A Course Book in Language Variation Across Time,' 2nd edition, by Dennis Freeborn.

Reviews the book `The Language of Gender and Class: Transformation in the Victorian Novel,' by P. Ingham.

Reviews the book `A Language Suppressed: The Pronunciation of the Scots Language in the 18th Century,' by C. Jones.

Reviews the book `The English Language: Structure and Development,' by S. Hussey.

Reviews the book `Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition,' by Vivian Cook.

Reviews the book `The History of the English Language: A Source Book' by David Burnley.

Reviews the book `Lunatic Lovers of Language: Imaginary Languages and Their Inventors,' by M. Yaguello with translations by C. Slater.

Reviews the book `Speech Acts and Literary Theory,' by S. Petrey. Development of speech-act theory and its various applications within the domain of literature; Establishment of the rights of speech-act theory to form a valid part of literary theory and study.

Reviews the book `Ideologies of Language,' edited by J.E. Joseph and T.J. Taylor. Analysis of the varying degrees of ideological commitment that influences the description and interpretation of linguistic data; Preconceptions about language that emerge from linguists and the general public.

Reviews the book "The Archaeology of English," by Martyn Wakelin.

Reviews the book "A New Rime Index to the Canterbury Tales," edited by Michio Masui.

Reviews the book `Jargon: Its Uses and Abuses,' by W. Nash.

Reviews the book `A Treatise on the Provincial Dialect of Scotland,' by S. Douglas, edited by C. Jones.

Reviews the book `A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar,' by B. Sundby, A.K. Bjorge and K.E. Haughland.

Reviews the book `The Be/Have Variation with Intransitives in English: With Special Reference to the Late Modern Period,' by M. Ryden and S. Brorstrom.

Reviews the book `The Rhetoric of Empiricism: Language and Perception from Locke to I.A. Richards,' by Jules David Law.

Reviews the book 'Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography: Selected Papers From the Fourth G.L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998,' edited by Julie Coleman and Christian J. Kay.

Reviews the book `An Annotated Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Grammars of English,' by Manfred Gorlach.

Reviews the book `Linguistic Variation and Change: On the Historical Sociolinguistics of English,' by J. Milroy.