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Language rights: Not political but scientific correctness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
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Abstract

TOVE SKUTNABB-KANGAS replies to Anthea Fraser Gupta (‘Language rights’, ET50: Apr 97) regarding issues of linguistic diversity

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English Today , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , October 1998 , pp. 40 - 43
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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