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10 - Ethnolinguistic Assertions Regarding People Who Allegedly “Talk White,” or “Talk Black”

from Part II - Language Regard and Language Variation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2018

Betsy E. Evans
Affiliation:
University of Washington
Erica J. Benson
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
James N. Stanford
Affiliation:
Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
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Language Regard
Methods, Variation and Change
, pp. 183 - 196
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Print publication year: 2018

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