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This text examines the differences between "standard" and "nonstandard" (or colloquial) varieties of Dutch, French, English, Finnish, Galician, German and Spanish. It looks at syntax, dialects, and spoken colloquial varieties of language, which is acknowledged as an area of growing interest.

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Jenny Cheshire is Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, language variation and coversational narrative.

Dieter Stein is Professor at Heinrich Heine University, Germany. His research interests include language development, language and communication in the internet, and the linguistics of Hypertext. 

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ISBN 10:  0582298091 ISBN 13:  9780582298095
Publisher: Routledge, 1997
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