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Patrick Morency Institut des Sciences du Langage et de la Communication UniversitdeNeuchtel Espace Louis-Agassiz, 1 CH-2000 Neuchtel Switzerland e-mail: patrick.morency@unine.ch (Received 15 April 2007) Gouvard Jean-Michel (dir.), De la langue au style (Textes & Langue) Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2005, 442pp. Anne Judge Department of Linguistic Cultural and Translation Studies University of Surrey Guildford GU2 7XH e-mail: a.judge@surrey.ac.uk (Received 10 December 2006) Mac, Caroline, Baret, Philippe, Bozzi, Andrea and Cignoni, Laura (eds.), The Evolution of Texts: Confronting Stemmatological and Genetical Methods. 978-88-8147-435-6doi:10.1017/S0959269507003079 This is a fascinating and stimulating book whose implications go far beyond the title or indeed, the subject-matter, which is (on the face of it) pretty specialised and not immediately relevant to JFLS.