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Sinfree Makoni & Alastair Pennycook (eds.), Disinventing and reconstituting languages. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2007. Pp. xv, 249. Pb $37.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2008

Susan E. Frekko
Susan E. Frekko
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Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, sefrekko@umich.edu
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Language in Society , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , October 2008 , pp. 612 - 615
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