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Email: a challenge to Standard English?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Li Lan
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Abstract

A survey of an ‘organic, evolving and dynamic’ hybrid between writing and speech and language and language

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English Today , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , October 2000 , pp. 23 - 29
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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