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Sociolinguistic theory : linguistic variation and its social significance
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ISBN: 0631183264 0631183256 9780631183259 9780631183266 Year: 1995 Volume: 22 Publisher: Oxford Cambridge, Mass. Blackwell

Quarante ans de sociolinguistique à la périphérie
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ISBN: 2738458084 Year: 1997 Publisher: Paris L'Harmattan

Blessings of Babel
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ISBN: 0899252265 3110110806 3110862964 3111781305 9783110862966 9780899252261 9783110110807 9783111781303 Year: 2012 Volume: 46 Publisher: Berlin Boston

Whose language?
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ISBN: 128335909X 9786613359094 9027279535 9789027279538 9027250049 9789027250049 0915027615 9780915027613 Year: 1985 Volume: 3 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia J. Benjamins Pub. Co.

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""For the colonized person, objectivity is always directed against him"" (Frantz Fanon). Colonized persons do not live on what we call (or used to call) the ""colonies"" alone. In general, objective reality, or the ""facts of life"", are very different depending on the kind of life you can afford. This goes for language as well; and it explains both the title of this book, and gives it its ""raison d'être"". It deals with power in language, and asks: Who is really in command when we use ""our"" language? And why does it make sense to talk about a language of power (or lack of it)? The p

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