Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society

by Peter Trudgill

Overview

This is a classic book on a fascinating subject. Peter Trudgill examines the close link between language and society and the many factors that influence the way we speak. These range from gender, environment, age, race, class, region and politics. Trudgill's book surveys languages and societies from all over the world drawing on examples from Afrikaans to Yiddish. He has added a fascinating chapter on the development of a language as a result of a non-native speaker's use of it. Compelling and authoritative, this new edition of a bestselling book is set to redraw the boundaries of the study of sociolinguistics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141926308
Publisher:	Penguin UK
Publication date:	08/03/2000
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	1 MB

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.

Table of Contents

	List of Figures, Maps and Tables	vii
	Acknowledgements	ix
	Phonetic Symbols	xi
1	Sociolinguistics--Language and Society	1
2	Language and Social Class	23
3	Language and Ethnic Group	42
4	Language and Sex	61
5	Language and Context	81
6	Language and Social Interaction	105
7	Language and Nation	119
8	Language and Geography	147
9	Language and Contact	165
10	Language and Humanity	185
	Annotated Bibliography and Further Reading	205
	Index	211