Peter Trudgill (ed.). Sociolinguistic Patterns in British English
London: Edward Arnold, 1979. 186 pp. £ 4.50

Reviewed by

Bernhard Kettemann | Institut fur engl. Philologie, Universität Graz

Published online: 1 January 1980

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