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Part II - The Structure of Social Meaning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2021

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Lauren Hall-Lew ,
Emma Moore  and
Robert J. Podesva
Lauren Hall-Lew
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University of Edinburgh
Emma Moore
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University of Sheffield
Robert J. Podesva
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Stanford University, California
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Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation
Theorizing the Third Wave
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