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Chapter 1 - Sociolinguistic Fieldwork in a Racial and Political Maelstrom

Getting In, Getting On and Primary Recording Instruments and Techniques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2019

John Russell Rickford
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Gillian Sankoff
John Russell Rickford
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Stanford University, California
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Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies , pp. 17 - 30
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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