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Chapter 2 - Symbol of Powerlessness and Degeneracy, or Symbol of Solidarity and Truth?

Paradoxical Attitudes toward Pidgins and Creoles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2019

John Russell Rickford
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John Russell Rickford  and
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
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Gillian Sankoff
John Russell Rickford
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Stanford University, California
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Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies , pp. 31 - 47
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