Sociolinguistics
An Introduction to Language and Society
$39.29
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2000
Summary
This is a classic book on a fascinating subject. Peter Trudgill examines the close link between language and society and the many factors that influence the way we speak. These range from gender, environment, age, race, class, region and politics. Trudgill’s book surveys languages and societies from all over the world drawing on examples from Afrikaans to Yiddish. He has added a fascinating chapter on the development of a language as a result of a non-native speaker’s use of it. Compelling and authoritative, this new edition of a bestselling book is set to redraw the boundaries of the study of sociolinguistics.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140289213 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140289216 |
| Author: | Peter Trudgill |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Edition: | 4th |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2000 |
| Weight: | 178g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 131mm x 197mm |
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Peter Trudgill
Peter Trudgill is currently Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
He is the author of:
- English Accents and Dialects (with Arthur Hughes)
- International English (with Jean Hannah)
- Applied Sociolinguistics
- Language in the British Isles
- The Dialects of England
- The Sociolinguistics Reader (with Jenny Cheshire)
- Bad Language (with Lars Andersson)
- Introducing Language and Society
He lives in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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