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Language Surrounding Poverty in Early Modern England: A Corpus-based Investigation of How People Living in the Seventeenth Century Perceived the Criminalised Poor

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Language Surrounding Poverty in Early Modern England: A Corpus-based Investigation of How People Living in the Seventeenth Century Perceived the Criminalised Poor. / McEnery, Tony; Baker, Helen.
Language and Computers. ed. / Carla Suhr; Terttu Nevalainen; Irma Taavitsainen. Liden: Brill Rodopi, 2019. p. 225-257 (Language and Computers; Vol. 83).

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McEnery, T & Baker, H 2019, Language Surrounding Poverty in Early Modern England: A Corpus-based Investigation of How People Living in the Seventeenth Century Perceived the Criminalised Poor. in C Suhr, T Nevalainen & I Taavitsainen (eds), Language and Computers. Language and Computers, vol. 83, Brill Rodopi, Liden, pp. 225-257. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004390652_011

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McEnery, T., & Baker, H. (2019). Language Surrounding Poverty in Early Modern England: A Corpus-based Investigation of How People Living in the Seventeenth Century Perceived the Criminalised Poor. In C. Suhr, T. Nevalainen, & I. Taavitsainen (Eds.), Language and Computers (pp. 225-257). (Language and Computers; Vol. 83). Brill Rodopi. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004390652_011

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McEnery T, Baker H. Language Surrounding Poverty in Early Modern England: A Corpus-based Investigation of How People Living in the Seventeenth Century Perceived the Criminalised Poor. In Suhr C, Nevalainen T, Taavitsainen I, editors, Language and Computers. Liden: Brill Rodopi. 2019. p. 225-257. (Language and Computers). doi: 10.1163/9789004390652_011

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McEnery, Tony ; Baker, Helen. / Language Surrounding Poverty in Early Modern England : A Corpus-based Investigation of How People Living in the Seventeenth Century Perceived the Criminalised Poor. Language and Computers. editor / Carla Suhr ; Terttu Nevalainen ; Irma Taavitsainen. Liden : Brill Rodopi, 2019. pp. 225-257 (Language and Computers).

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