Review published In:
English World-WideVol. 13:1 (1992) ► pp.134–138
Book review
. Language in Exile: Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole. Tuscaloosa … London: University of Alabama Press, 1990. xvii + 276 pp. $39.95 hb.
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