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The king's speech: metalanguage of nation, man and class in anecdotes about George III1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2012

CAROL PERCY
CAROL PERCY*
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Department of English, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St George Street, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5R 2M8, Canadacarol.percy@utoronto.ca
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English Language & Linguistics , Volume 16 , Issue 2: Selected papers from the Fourth International Conference on Late Modern English , July 2012 , pp. 281 - 299
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