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The linguistics of contact and change: A review of English In Multilingual South Africa - Raymond Hickey (ed.), English in Multilingual South Africa: The Linguistics of Contact and Change Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xxi+420. Hardback, ISBN 978-1-108-42534-6. Paperback, ISBN 978-1-108-44223-7

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Raymond Hickey (ed.), English in Multilingual South Africa: The Linguistics of Contact and Change Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xxi+420. Hardback, ISBN 978-1-108-42534-6. Paperback, ISBN 978-1-108-44223-7

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Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu*
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Department of English, Howard University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
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centrifugal and centripetal forcesincipient regionalityendonormativityvowel shiftecono-language planning
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English Today , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , December 2024 , pp. 300 - 302
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