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Publication details [#33449]
Peterson, Mark Allen. 2003. American warriors speaking American: The metapragmatics of performance in the nation state. In Dedaic, Mirjana N. and Daniel Nelson, eds. At War With Words. (Language, Power and Social Process 10). 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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This essay examines Congressional debate over a 1996 bill to make English the official language of the U.S. Government and its coverage in The Stars and Stripes, a
weekly newspaper for veterans, from the perspective of metapragmatics.