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More attention to detail?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 July 2005

Robert Phillipson
Robert Phillipson
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University of Roskilde, Denmark
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David Crystal begins his article ‘The future of Englishes’ (ET58, Apr 99) with a plea for clarity in theoretical thinking and in observing the facts of language change. He sees intelligibility and identity/attitude as two key parameters for the existence of one or more languages, but his examples from Scandinavia and Yugoslavia are simply incorrect.

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English Today , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , July 2005 , pp. 63 - 64
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