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Standards and the Standard Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Peter Strevens
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Extract

Who speaks Standard English? Do all the people on our cover use it, only some of them, or only one of them? Are these even reasonable questions to ask in 1985? What is the standard language and what are language standards anyway, towards the end of the 20th century?

Type
Research Article
Information
English Today , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , April 1985 , pp. 5 - 7
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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