Sociolinguistic variation and change / Peter Trudgill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trudgill, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Linguistic change.

Sociolinguistics.

Languages in contact.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748615155);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 different but related topics:The role of English in the world, and the nature of Standard English or EnglishesLanguage as a human issue and how sociolinguistic research might solve educational and other real-world problemsThe problematic and interconnected relationships between nation and language and dialect, and the linguistic characteristics of the varieties concernedSociohistorical linguistics, in particular the relationship between colonial and motherland varieties of English; dialect contact and language contact; and the sociolinguistically informed dialectology of linguistic change.The major overall unifying theme of the book is linguistic variation and, as the diachronic outcome of linguistic variation, linguistic change."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Sources

General Introduction

I. Sociohistorical linguistics

II. Dialect change

III. Language contact

IV. Language creation and language death

V. Englishes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474473330

1474473334

9780585443393

0585443394

OCLC:

1306538124