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Prestige, purity, and power

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Tony Fairman
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Abstract

‘Language isn't used only for communication; it's also used as an instrument of political and social power.’ If this is so, is something that was common 150 years ago in the social power-plays of England repeating itself in black Africa?

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Special Features
Information
English Today , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , July 1986 , pp. 13 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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