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English in Nordic Universities: Ideologies and practices
Edited by Anna Kristina Hultgren, Frans Gregersen and Jacob Thøgersen
[Studies in World Language Problems 5] 2014
► pp. 251–263

English from above and below, and from outside

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Published online: 24 October 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/wlp.5.12hab
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