The Social Life of Language

The Social Life of Language
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 396
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ISBN-10 : 9781512809589
ISBN-13 : 1512809586
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Book Synopsis The Social Life of Language by : Gillian Sankoff

Download or read book The Social Life of Language written by Gillian Sankoff and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.


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