The Good, the Bad, and the Foreign: The Use of Dialect in Children's Animated Television

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 557, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 105-119

  Dobrow, Julia R ^a   Gidney, Calvin L ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0032370436     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716298557000009     Document Type: Article

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