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Peter Burke and Roy Porter (eds.), Languages and jargons: Contributions to a social history of language. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995. Pp. vii, 216. [Distrib. in the US by Blackwelll; hb $24.95.]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2012

Suzanne Romaine
Affiliation:
Merton College, Oxford OXI 4JD, England, suzanne.romaine@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk

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