TOC, Language in Society

[Harold F. Schiffman]

Journal Title: Language in Society
Volume Number: 33
Issue Number: 1
Issue Date: Jan 2004


The Valencian revival: Why usage lags behind competence
RAQUEL CASESNOVES FERRER, DAVID SANKOFF

Building bilingual oppositions: Code-switching in children's disputes
JAKOB CROMDAL

Register levels of ethno-national purity: The ethnicization of
language and community in Mauritius
PATRICK EISENLOHR

Students, sarariiman (pl.), and seniors: Japanese men's use of [prime
prime or minute]manly[prime prime or minute] speech register
CINDI STURTZ SREETHARAN

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Ricardo Otheguy

BENJAMIN H. BAILEY, Language, race and negotiation of identity: A
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Bonnie Urciuoli

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