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Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Vol. 24:2 (2009) ► pp. 363–366
Book review

Rajend Mesthrie & Rakesh M. Bhatt. World Englishes: The study of new linguistic varieties
Rajend Mesthrie & Rakesh M. Bhatt. [Key Topics in Sociolinguistics]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xvii, 276 pp. Paperback £18.99 approx US $40.00 To order electronically, visit http://www.cambridge.org/

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| Universität Augsburg
Published online: 21 August 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.24.2.06hac
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