The language of the city: Town bemba as urban hybridity

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 30-59

  Spitulnik, Debra ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 75649150664     PISSN: 10551360     EISSN: 15481395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/jlin.1998.8.1.30     Document Type: Article

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