World Englishes and Descriptive Grammars

The Handbook of World Englishes

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 509-525

  Davis, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolutism; Colonial discourse; Critique; Orientalism; Relativism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891031730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470757598.ch28     Document Type: Chapter

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