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Language, Self and Society: A Social History of Language

Roy Porter (Editor), Peter Burke (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-7456-1341-3
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368 pages
January 1991, Polity
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'The broad concentration upon a generally-neglected period of language history (the 17th and 18th centuries) is wholly welcome... Nigel Smith is fascinating on 'The Uses of Hebrew in the English Revolution' and Peter Burke's little sketch of post-Medieval uses of Latin is wide ranging and excellent.' The London Review of Books
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