The Whiteness of Nerds: Superstandard English and Racial Markedness

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 84-100

  Bucholtz, Mary ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84937387937     PISSN: 10551360     EISSN: 15481395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/jlin.2001.11.1.84     Document Type: Article

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