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Chapter 1 - Sociolinguistic Fieldwork in a Racial and Political Maelstrom

Getting In, Getting On and Primary Recording Instruments and Techniques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2019

John Russell Rickford
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Stanford University, California
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