Author’s Note: I am very grateful to Ruth King for this opportunity to reflect and comment on the three articles, both at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 17 and here, and of course to the authors themselves for giving me access to their work prepublication. I also thank Anne Curzan and Robin Queen for their suggestions. Journal of English Linguistics Volume 37 Number 3 September 2009 284-300 © 2009 SAge Publications 10.1177/0075424209341188 http://eng.sagepub.com hosted at http://online.sagepub.
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