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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 …
East Anglian English
Studies of the very earliest form of language which can be called English, and its later influence. East Anglia - the easternmost area of England - was probably home to the …
Sociolinguistics / Soziolinguistik. Volume 1
Since the publication of the first edition of the handbook Sociolinguistics/Soziolinguistik , the then young discipline has changed and developed considerably. The field has left …
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 …
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 …
Dialect Matters
Based on Peter Trudgill's weekly column in the Eastern Daily Press newspaper, this book has two overall messages. The first is that language is a fascinating and enjoyable …
Investigations in Sociohistorical Linguistics
In the last five hundred years or so, the English language has undergone remarkable geographical expansion, bringing it into contact with other languages in new locations. It also …
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 …
East Anglian English
This book is the first full-scale scientific study of East Anglian English. The author is a native East Anglian sociolinguist and dialectologist who has devoted decades to the …
Further Studies in the Lesser-Known Varieties of English
This volume follows on from The Lesser-Known Varieties of English (Cambridge, 2010), by documenting a further range of varieties that have been overlooked and understudied. It …
Dialectology
Dialectology is the study of language variation through dialect geography and sociolinguistics.