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Carol Myers-Scotton, Social motivations for codeswitching. Evidence from Africa. (Oxford studies in language contact.) Oxford: Clarendon, 1993. Pp. xii, 177. Hb $35.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2009

Walter F. Edwards
Walter F. Edwards
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Dept. of English, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202
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Language in Society , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 1995 , pp. 302 - 305
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