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Schooled and open Englishes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Tony Fairman
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Extract

A response to John Honey's article ‘The straw hippopotamus’ (ET55, Jul 98) and his recent book ‘Language is Power’ (1997)

Type
Research Article
Information
English Today , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , January 1999 , pp. 24 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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