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10 - ‘I Stole It from a Letter, off Your Tongue It Rolled.’1 The Performance of Dialect in Glasgow’s Indie Music Scene

from Part III - Identifying Places

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2017

Chris Montgomery
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
Emma Moore
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
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Language and a Sense of Place
Studies in Language and Region
, pp. 215 - 233
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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