South African English: Labels, comprehensibility and status

World Englishes

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-19

  Coetzee Van Rooy, Susan ^a   Van Rooy, Bertus ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

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EID: 27844511086     PISSN: 08832919     EISSN: 1467971X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0883-2919.2005.00384.x     Document Type: Article

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