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Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
Vol. 16:1 (1993) ► pp.138–146
Book review

Review of Miller, Casey & Kate Swift (1991) Words and women: New language in new times

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 | Department of Linguistics, La Trobe University
Published online: 1 January 1993
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