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Fortune, G. 1988

 
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Fortune, Gretchen. 1988. "Indigenous literatures: Oral and written literature and the influence of language borrowing in relation to male and female speech differences." Article is revised version of paper originally presented at the Applied Linguistic Congress at the Catholic University of Sao Paulo (PUC), July 19, 1983. Latin American Indian Literatures Journal.

Summary
 

Seeks to demonstrate that differences in male and female mother tongue speech forms may influence the adoption of many loan words in oral and written literature. Discusses practical and theoretical implications of the research.


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