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The Language of Shop Signs in a Modern Shopping Centre in Brunei

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The inaugural works on LL noted that public spaces offer fresh and interesting ideas about language usage that are often not in line with formal policies.

The original version of this chapter was revised: For detailed information please see Erratum. The erratum to this chapter is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0853-5_18

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Susilawati Japri (2016). The Language of Shop Signs in a Modern Shopping Centre in Brunei. In: Noor Azam Haji-Othman, McLellan, J., Deterding, D. (eds) The Use and Status of Language in Brunei Darussalam. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0853-5_4

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