Publications
Collins, James. 2017. Dilemmas of race, register, and inequality in South Africa. Language in Society 46 (1) : 39–56.
Collins, James. 2011. Indexicalities of language contact in an era of globalization: engaging with John Gumperz's legacy. Text & Talk 31 (4) : 407–428.
Collins, James. 2009. The place of narrative in human affairs: the implications of Hymes's Amerindian work for understanding text and talk. Text & Talk 29 (3) : 325–345.
Collins, James. 2003. Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity. (Studies in Social and Cultural Foundations of Language 22). Cambridge University Press.
Collins, James. 1998. Review of $Literacy, emotion, and authority: Reading and writing on a Polynesian atoll. Language 74 (1) : 183–185.
Collins, James. 1989. Review of J.Green, C.Wallat (eds.) (1981: 'Ethnography and language in educational settings'). Journal of Pragmatics 13 (2) : 275–282.
Collins, James. 1987. Conversation and knowledge in bureaucratic settings. Discourse Processes 10 (4) : 303–319.