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Governmental writers and African readers in Rhodesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Kenneth R. Cripwell
Kenneth R. Cripwell
Affiliation:
Institute of Education, University of London
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Abstract

The simplified documents produced by the British and Rhodesian governments to explain the settlement proposals to Africans are compared in terms of syntactic complexity and lexical choice, and in terms of the audience to which addressed. (Multilingual societies, stylistic levels, receptive competence, English, Rhodesia.)

Type
Articles: Social Assumptions of English Style
Information
Language in Society , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , August 1975 , pp. 147 - 154
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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