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Review published In: Language Problems and Language Planning
Vol. 18:3 (1994) ► pp.270–275

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Robert K. Herbert (ed.). Language and Society in Africa. The Theory and Practice of Sociolinguistics. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1992. 356 pp.

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Published online: 1 January 1994
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