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Alexandra D'Arcy, Discourse-pragmatic variation in context: Eight hundred years of LIKE. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2017. Pp. xx, 235. Hb. $143, €95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2018

John Weston*
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School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United [email protected]

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