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Most of us believe we know what we mean by language. For many, the idea is approached primarily from the experience of learning a foreign language: a set of problems and tasks associated with the acquisition of lexis, phonology and syntax; the end product being (we hope) the ability to communicate in this new code. Awareness of this distinctive system proves to us that we are learning another language.
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© 2005 Robert McColl Millar
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McColl Millar, R. (2005). Language and Dialect. In: Language, Nation and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230504226_3
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