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Publication details [#32302]

Agha, Asif. 2003. The social life of cultural value. Language & Communication 23 (3-4) : 231–273.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | value

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0271-5309

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This article discusses processes via which the values of cultural forms are formulated, maintained and communicated across social populations, focusing on the emergence and spread of a prestige register of spoken British English, nowadays referred to as 'Received Pronunciation'.