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South Africa's language ghosts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Peter J. H. Titlestad
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Abstract

In nineteenth-century England, Dickens wrote about the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, imagery that can be applied to South Africa today

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Research Article
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English Today , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , April 1998 , pp. 33 - 39
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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