Investigations in Sociohistorical Linguistics

Stories of Colonisation and Contact

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Peter Trudgill

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In the last five hundred years or so, the English language has undergone remarkable geographical expansion, bringing it into contact with other languages in new locations. It also caused different regional dialects of the language to come into contact with each other in colonial situations. This book is made up of a number of fascinating tales of historical-sociolinguistic detection. These are stories of origins - of a particular variety of English or linguistic feature - which together tell a compelling general story. In each case, Trudgill presents an intriguing puzzle, locates and examines the evidence, detects clues that unravel the mystery, and finally proposes a solution. The solutions are all original, often surprising, sometimes highly controversial. Providing a unique insight into how language contact shapes varieties of English, this entertaining yet rigorous account will be welcomed by students and researchers in linguistics, sociolinguistics and historical linguistics.

Author Biography:

Peter Trudgill is Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.

Release date Australia

September 2nd, 2010

Author

Peter Trudgill

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

5 Tables, black and white; 3 Maps

Pages

232

Dimensions

138x216x12

ISBN-13

9780521132930

Product ID

7126827

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