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• Can Language be Planned? Sociolinguistic Theory for Developing Nations (originally published 1971; this edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019), ed. by Joan Rubin and Björn H. Jernudd
  • PDF and Epub at Hawaii
  • HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE
• The Civilization of Illiteracy (1997), by Mihai Nadin (Gutenberg text)
• Speech and Respect (Hamlyn Lectures, #44; London: Stevens and Sons/Sweet and Maxwell, 1994), by Richard L. Abel (PDF in the UK)
• Fatwas and Court Judgments: A Genre Analysis of Arabic Legal Opinion (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Ahmed Fakhri (PDF at Ohio State)
• Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), by LuMing Mao (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Dialect Use as Interaction Strategy: A Sociolinguistic Study of Contextualization, Speech Perception, and Language Attitudes in Austria (Vienna: Braumüller, c2009), by Barbara Soukup (PDF with commentary in Austria)

• The Afro-Bolivian Spanish Determiner Phrase: A Microparametric Account (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Sandro Sessarego (PDF at Ohio State)

• Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830-1930 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Renata R. Mautner Wasserman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2002; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2004), ed. by Philip LeVine and Ronald Scollon (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics, Language, and the Real World: Discourse and Beyond (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2001; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2003), ed. by Deborah Tannen and James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
• Language, Communication, and Social Meaning (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1992; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1992), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics and Language Pedagogy: The State of the Art (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1991; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1991), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
• Language Spread and Language Policy: Issues, Implications, and Case Studies (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1987; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1988), ed. by Peter H. Lowenberg (PDF at Georgetown)
• Meaning, Form, and Use in Context: Linguistic Applications (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1984; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1984), ed. by Deborah Schiffrin (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics and Anthropology (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1977; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1977), ed. by Muriel Saville-Troike (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics: Teaching and Interdisciplinary Relations (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1974; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1974), ed. by Francis P. Dinneen (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics, Language, and the Professions: Education, Journalism, Law, Medicine, and Technology (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2000; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2002), ed. by James E. Alatis, Heidi Ehernberger Hamilton, and Ai-Hui Tan (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language Variation: Current Trends and Future Prospects (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1996; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1996), ed. by James E. Alatis, Carolyn A. Straehle, Maggie Ronkin, and Brent Gallenberger (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics and the Education of Language Teachers: Ethnolinguistic, Psycholinguistic, and Sociolinguistic Aspects (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1995; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1995), ed. by James E. Alatis, Carolyn A. Straehle, Brent Gallenberger, and Maggie Ronkin (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics, Language Teaching and Language Acquisition: The Interdependence of Theory, Practice and Research (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1990; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1990), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
• Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2008; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2010), ed. by Deborah Schiffrin, Anna De Fina, and Anastasia Nylund (PDF at Georgetown)
• Language in Public Life (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1979; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1979), ed. by James E. Alatis and G. Richard Tucker (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Sixteenth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1965), by Charles W. Kreidler (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Seventh Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1956), ed. by Paul L. Garvin (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Fifth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1954), ed. by Hugo J. Mueller (PDF at Georgetown)

• Report Of The Thirteenth Annual Round Table Meeting On Linguistics And Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1963), ed. by Elisabeth Delorme Woodworth and Robert J. Di Pietro (PDF at Georgetown)

• Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2006; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2008), ed. by Kendall A. King, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Jia Jackie Lou, Lyn Wright, and Barbara Soukup (PDF at Georgetown)

• Teaching and Learning Tibetan; The Role of the Tibetan Language in Tibet's Future: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, April 7, 2003 (Washington: GPO, 2003), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2006; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2008), ed. by Kendall A. King, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Jia Jackie Lou, Lyn Wright, and Barbara Soukup (PDF at Georgetown)

• Language Dispersal Beyond Farming (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2017), ed. by Martine Irma Robbeets and Alexander Savelyev (PDF and Epub with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)
• Language Spread and Language Policy: Issues, Implications, and Case Studies (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1987; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1988), ed. by Peter H. Lowenberg (PDF at Georgetown)

• Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2006; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2008), ed. by Kendall A. King, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Jia Jackie Lou, Lyn Wright, and Barbara Soukup (PDF at Georgetown)

• Corpus Linguistics and 17th-Century Prostitution: Computational Linguistics and History (London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, c2017), by Tony McEnery and Helen Baker (PDF and Epub with commentary at OAPEN)

• Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), ed. by Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reading London: Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-century Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Erik Bond (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels (originally published 1971, revised 1994; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Alistair M. Duckworth (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Perspectives: Modes of Viewing and Knowing in Nineteenth-Century England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Linda M. Shires (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Audrey Jaffe (PDF at Ohio State)

• Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Glending Olson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Weaving Narrative: Clothing in Twelfth-Century French Romance (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009), by Monica L. Wright (PDF at PSU)

• Social Structures in Molière's Theater (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by James F. Gaines (PDF at Ohio State)

• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Acting like Men: Gender, Drama, and Nostalgia in Ancient Greece (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Karen Bassi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Traffic in Praise: Pindar and the Poetics of Social Economy (originally published 1991; electronic edition c2013), by Leslie Kurke (Javascript-dependent page images at escholarship.org)

• Commentary and Ideology: Dante in the Renaissance (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), by Deborah Parker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Inventing High and Low: Literature, Mass Culture, and Uneven Modernity in Spain (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Stephanie Sieburth (page images at HathiTrust)
• At the Margins of the Renaissance: Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque Art of Survival (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003), by Giancarlo Maiorino (PDF at PSU)

• Promissory Notes: On the Literary Conditions of Debt (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, 2018), by Robin Truth Goodman (Javascript-dependent HTML with commentary at Lever Press)
• Changing the Terms: Translating in the Postcolonial Era (c2000), ed. by Sherry Simon and Paul St-Pierre (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
• Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), ed. by Margaret H. Beissinger, Jane Tylus, and Susanne Lindgren Wofford (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

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