Publications
Besnier, Niko. 2013. Language on the edge of the global: Communicative competence, agency, and the complexity of the local. Language & Communication 33 (4) : 463–471.
Besnier, Niko. 1998. Review of $Dimensions of register variation: A cross-linguistic comparison. Language in Society 27 (1) : 126–129.
Besnier, Niko. 1995. Literacy, emotion, and authority: Reading and writing on a Polynesian atoll. (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Languages 17). Cambridge University Press.
Besnier, Niko. 1994. Involvement in linguistic practice: An ethnographic appraisal. Journal of Pragmatics 22 (3/4) : 279–299.
Besnier, Niko. 1990. Review of D.Tannen (ed.) (1988: `Linguistics in context: Connecting observation and understanding'). Language 66 (3) : 562–566.
Besnier, Niko. 1990. Review of M.Moerman (1988: `Talking culture: Ethnography and conversation analysis'). Language in Society 19 (1) : 104–108.
Besnier, Niko. 1989. Information withholding as a manipulative and collusive strategy in a Nukulaelae gossip. Language in Society 18 (3) : 315–341.