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In:World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies
Edited by Peter Siemund, Gardy Stein and Manuela Vida-Mannl
[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity 9] 2025
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Investigating World Englishes in their local multilingual ecologies

An introduction

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Published online: 24 April 2025
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