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English or Englishes?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

François Chevillet
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Abstract

Following from Tom McArthur's ‘Models of English’ (ET32, Oct 92), a consideration of such models and the singularity or plurality of the language(s)

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English Today , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , October 1993 , pp. 29 - 33
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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