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The standard in South African English and its social history.
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ISBN: 3872762109 9786613012425 1283012421 9027286728 Year: 1985 Publisher: Heidelberg : Groos,

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This study of the South African variety of English is an exercise in the sociology of language conducted mainly within the conceptual framework and methodology created by William Labov. It accepts that social process and social structure are reflected in patterns of covariation involving linguistic and social variables, and in attitudes to different varieties of speech within the community. This premise is pursued here in its historical implications: linguistuic evidence in present-day speech patterns of earlier states of the society and of the social, political and cultural changes that have

A dictionary of South African English
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ISBN: 0195705955 9780195705959 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cape Town: Oxford university press,

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