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Language Problems and Language PlanningVol. 15:1 (1991) ► pp.95–98
Book review
. The Death of Black English: Divergence and Convergence in Black and White Vernaculars. Bamberger Beiträge zur englischen Sprachwissenchschaft.Frankfurt am Main etc.: Verlag Peter Lang, 1989. xii + 227 pp.
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