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Sociolinguistic Variation and Change

ISBN-13: 9780878403691
Publisher: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Peter Trudgill
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Local release date: 17/01/2002
Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 208 pages Weight: 318g
Categories: Sociolinguistics [CFB]

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Google Preview: This selection of Trudgill's major works since 1988, appearing here in updated and revised form, reveals major recurring themes in his work on linguistic diversity. This book evinces his deep concern that the world's linguistic diversity is diminishing at an alarming rate. The linguistic future is likely to be very different from the past, because increased language contact among people will result in the creation of fewer new languages to balance the language deaths. The essays here manifest Trudgill's conviction that linguists must make every effort to study minority languages and dialects before they vanish. The book also demonstrates his sense of obligation that linguists have to educate the public about why linguistic diversity is valuable.; I. Sociohistorical LinguisticsIntroduction: Sociohistorical linguistics 1. British vernacular dialects in the formation of American English: the case of East Anglian do2. Short 'o' in East Anglia and New England3. Sociohistorical linguistics and dialect survival: a note on another Nova Scotian enclave II. Dialect ChangeIntroduction: Dialect Change 4. Two hundred years of dedialectalisation: the East Anglian short vowel system5. New-dialect formation and dedialectisation: embryonic and vestigial variants6. Norwich revisited: recent linguistic changes in an English urban dialect III. Language Contact Introduction: Language Contact 7. Dual-source pidgins and reverse creoloids: northern perspectives on language contact8. Language contact and the function of linguistic gender9. Third-person singular zero: African American vernacular English, East Anglian dialects and Spanish persecution in the Low Countries 10. Language Contact and inherent variability: the absence of hypercorrection in East Anglian present-tense verb forms IV. Language creation and language death Introduction: Language creation and language death 11. Ausbau sociolinguistics and the perception of language status in contemporary Europe12. Ausbau sociolinguistics and identity in modern Greece13. Language maintenance and language shift: preservation versus extinction V. EnglishesIntroduction: Englishes 14. English as an endangered language 15. Standard English: what it isn't16. The sociolinguistics of modern RP; Google Preview content

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