'Education is the key of life': Language, schooling, and gender in Tanzanian beauty pageants

Language and Communication

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 295-309

  Billings, Sabrina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

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EID: 80052084103     PISSN: 02715309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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