Hardback, 224mm x 138mm grey cloth boards, gilt titles, first edition, xii prelims, 180pp. Good +++/Good +++. Block edges are tanned, book otherwise clean and tight. Dustwrapper is clean with minimal wear. A rather wonderful account of the English language in use and as spoken across the world in the early 1980s. Catalogue: Literary Criticism. Keywords: slang, communication, dialect, class.

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Title: The State of the Language - English Observed
Publisher: London Hamish Hamilton
Publication Date: 1984
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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