How legitimate is my voice?: A rejoinder

Blommaert, Jan

doi:10.1075/target.18.1.09blo

Article published In: Heterolingualism in/and Translation
Edited by Reine Meylaerts
[Target 18:1] 2006
► pp. 163–176

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How legitimate is my voice?

A rejoinder

Jan Blommaert | Institute of Education, University of London & Ghent University

Published online: 5 December 2006

https://doi.org/10.1075/target.18.1.09blo

Article outline

0.Introduction
1.Translating orders of indexicality
2.Language, repertoires and audiences
3.Two problems
4.Whose hybridity?
Notes
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