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Ryan, Ellen Bouchard. 1979. Why do low-prestige language varieties persist? In Giles, Howard and Robert N. St.Clair, eds. Language and social psychology. Basil Blackwell. pp. 145–157.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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R. explores some of the reasons why speakers do not want to give up low-prestige varieties of language (such as the fact that language may function as a group identity symbol).