“We can't all understand the whites' language”: An analysis of monolingual health services in a multilingual society

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-46

  Crawford, Athalie ^a  

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EID: 84937184197     PISSN: 01652516     EISSN: 16133668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ijsl.1999.136.27     Document Type: Article

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