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Disciplinary Perspectives: From the first chapter, ‘Variationist Socio-

linguistics’, the handbook sets the tone of the succeeding 39 chapters: a
discussion of Labov’s studies is followed by analysis of new developments in the
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Language Policy, Language Ideology, and Language Attitudes: This section

presents a well-rounded international perspective on the topics of language policy,
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