Performing the people

Lee, Benjamin

doi:10.1075/prag.5.2.10lee

Article published In: Constructing languages and publics
Edited by Susan Gal and Kathryn A. Woolard
[Pragmatics 5:2] 1995
► pp. 263–280

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Performing the people

Benjamin Lee

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Published online: 1 June 1995

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