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yhteensä 16 hakutulosta
Sociolinguistic Typology
Peter Trudgill looks at why human societies at different times and places produce different kinds of language. He considers how far social factors influence language structure and …
English Accents and Dialects
English Accents and Dialects is an essential guide to contemporary social and regional varieties of English spoken in the British Isles today. Together with invaluable overviews of …
International English
From Singapore to Scotland, Canada to the Channel Islands, Namibia to New Zealand and beyond, International English takes you on a fascinating journey through the varieties of …
'Norwegian as a normal language' and other studies in Scandinavian linguistics
From Peter Trudgill's foreword: The papers in this volume [...] were published over a period of more than 40 years, between 1973 and 2016, during which time my views and interests …
Sociolinguistic Variation and Change
Sociolinguistic Variation and Change is a selection of Peter Trudgill's major works since 1990, appearing here in updated and revised form. The book deals with a number of …
Alternative Histories of English
This groundbreaking collection explores the beliefs and approaches to the history of English that do not make it into standard textbooks.Orthodox histories have presented a tunnel …
Sociolinguistics Reader Vol 1
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Dialects of England
This text celebrates the rich variety of regional and social dialects of English in all its forms, ancient and modern.
Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable
This book presents a challenge to the widely-held assumption that human languages are both similar and constant in their degree of complexity. For a hundred years or more the …
NEW-DIALECT FORMATION
This book presents a new and controversial theory about dialect contact and the formation of new colonial dialects. It examines the genesis of Latin American Spanish, Canadian …
A Glossary of Sociolinguistics
This pocket-sized alphabetic guide introduces popular terms used in the study of language and society. A central topic within modern linguistics, sociolinguistics deals with human …