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Agha, Asif. 2003. The social life of cultural value. Language & Communication 23 (3-4) : 231–273.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0271-5309

Annotation

This article discusses processes via which the values of cultural forms are formulated, maintained and communicated across social populations, focusing on the emergence and spread of a prestige register of spoken British English, nowadays referred to as 'Received Pronunciation'.