The case of Jamaica: Requiem for English in an “English-speaking” community

Shields-Brodber, Kathryn

doi:10.1075/veaw.g19.07shi

In:Englishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach
Edited by Edgar W. Schneider
[Varieties of English Around the World G19] 1997
► pp. 57–68

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Requiem for English in an “English-speaking” community

The case of Jamaica

Kathryn Shields-Brodber

Published online: 26 June 1997

https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g19.07shi

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