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Article published In: Language ideologies
Edited by Bambi B. Schieffelin, Paul V. Kroskrity and Kathryn A. Woolard
[Pragmatics 2:3] 1992
► pp. 387–404

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Linguistic ideologies And the naturalization of power in warao discourse

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