Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language And Society (Penguin language & linguistics) - Softcover

Trudgill, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014023926X ISBN 13: 9780140239263

Publisher: Penguin, 1995

Synopsis

This is a revised edition of Peter Trudgill's introduction to that part of linguistics which is concerned with language as a social and cultural phenomenon. The text explores the close line between language and society, and the factors that influence the way we speak including: gender; age; environment; race and class; the part of the country we come from; whom we identify with; and whom we distrust. The many variations in spoken English are explored in depth, as well as related pidgins and creoles such as those of the West Indies. He shows how these are not just a form of "broken English".

About this title

About the Author:

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); and the Penguin books Bad Language (with Lars Andersson) and Introducing Language and Society. He lives in Lausanne, Switzerland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 014023926X
• ISBN 13: 9780140239263
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 224