Development economics and language: The earnest search for a mirage?

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 119-158

  Arcand, Jean Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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EID: 34247689848     PISSN: 01652516     EISSN: 16133668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ijsl.1996.121.119     Document Type: Article

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