New Book Alerts, 2021–2024

Abstract

Books are portable magic" (Stephen King) and "There is no friend as loyal as a book" (Ernest Hemingway)As many readers may recall, we do not now have a Book Review Section or Editor after the stellar and prolonged service of Jake Harwood in this role for 20 years. But, rather, this new Section (first published in the September 2021 and thereafter in the March and December 2022 Issues) is aimed at keeping social psychologists of language and allied scholars updated on recent volumes appearing of research or general interest across language-related disciplines. The books below have not been categorized into topics as there are so many options; they are alphabetically listed by first author or editor and cover a wide variety of topics and the regions of the world, disciplines, and Publishers. This new Section was set up not least because most journals in the social sciences do not publish book reviews anymore and, hence, there is a large lacunae of invaluable data and ideas that could go unnoticed (or even banned in these contentious times and certain places).Needless to say, I hope the prior sections had caught your eye and I encourage you to glance down this list and virtually guarantee you will find items that you will wish to pursue (and maybe even trigger the value of going back and visiting prior lists). This last Section under my stewardship is a bumper compendium of recent books, with more than twice as many items then the longest prior catalogue of them.