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Florence Bonacina-Pugh. Language Policy as Practice: Advancing the Empirical Turn in Language Policy Research. Cham: Springer, 2024. 263 pp. ISBN 978-3-031-55782-8 EUR 149.79

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Published online: 23 May 2025
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