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Devyani Sharma, From deficit to dialect: The evolution of English in India and Singapore (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xiv + 302. ISBN 9780195307504.

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Devyani Sharma, From deficit to dialect: The evolution of English in India and Singapore (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xiv + 302. ISBN 9780195307504.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2025

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CLAUDIA LANGE*
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Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies Institute of English and American Studies Dresden University of Technology 01062 Dresden Germany Claudia.Lange@tu-dresden.de
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