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Publication details [#7738]

Pride, J.B. 1974. The deficit-difference controversy. Archivum Linguisticum 5 : 35–46.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Annotation

The controversy under discussion is the following: should one view non-standard English as deficient or just as different? Negation is discussed to throw some light on the problem. P. stresses the fundamental importance of speech acts and speech questions to the question.