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Dick Leith. A social history of English. (Language and Society Series.) London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983. Pp. ix + 224.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
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Departments of Linguistics and English, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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Language in Society , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , December 1984 , pp. 540 - 544
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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