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Review published In:
English World-Wide
Vol.
3:2
(1982) ► pp.
251
–
253
Book review
Suzanne
Romaine
.
Socio-historical Linguistics – Its Status and Methodology
[
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
, 34]
.
Cambridge:
UP
,
1982
.
xii + 315 pp.
£22.00
Reviewed by
Clausdirk Pollner
|
Institut für Anglistik
Published online: 1 January 1982
https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.3.2.15pol
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