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Richard J. Watts & Franz Andres Morrissey, Language, the singer and the song: The sociolinguistics of folk performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xviii, 372. Hb. £95.

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Richard J. Watts & Franz Andres Morrissey, Language, the singer and the song: The sociolinguistics of folk performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xviii, 372. Hb. £95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2021

Andy Gibson
Andy Gibson*
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Centre for Language Sciences Macquarie UniversityNorth Ryde, NSW2109, Australiaandy.gibson@mq.edu.au
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Language in Society , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , June 2021 , pp. 475 - 479
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