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Reithed in gloom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Abstract

DAVID CRYSTAL comments wryly on some implications of the BBC's annual Reith Lectures, given this year on language and linguistics by Jean Aitchison, the Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford. A less developed version of the article appeared in ‘The Independent on Sunday’ in February 1996

Type
Angles of Vision
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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