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Vol. 4:1 (2015) ► pp.174–182

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Susan Ehrlich, Miriam Meyerhoff & Janet Holmes (eds). The Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality (Second Edition). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

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