Edinburgh University Press eBooks· 2019· Book chapter
Sociolinguistic Variation and Change
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Short summary
This book presents updated and revised works by Peter Trudgill since 1990, focusing on linguistic variation and change as the central theme.
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Key points
- The book's central theme is linguistic variation and its role in driving linguistic change.
- It addresses the global status and varieties of English, including Standard English.
- The work explores the relationship between language, nation, and dialect.
- Sociohistorical linguistics, dialect contact, and colonial varieties of English are discussed.
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Abstract
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 Englishes Language as a human issue and how sociolinguistic research might solve educational and other real-world problems The problematic and interconnected relationships between nation and language and dialect, and the linguistic characteristics of the varieties concerned Sociohistorical 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. "
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Field: Linguistics and Language
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