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Dimensions of Sociolinguistics - Shirley Brice Heath, Ways with words: Language, life, and work in communities and classrooms. Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii + 421.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Keith Walters
Keith Walters
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Linguistics Department, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
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Language in Society , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , December 1984 , pp. 515 - 520
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