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Peter Trudgill is a theoretical dialectologist and sociolinguist who has held professorships at the Universities of Reading, Essex, Lausanne, and Fribourg. He is currently Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, and Honorary Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and has been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Uppsala, Sweden; the University of East Anglia; and La
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Téléchargez le livre :  The Long Journey of English
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The Long Journey of English

Peter Trudgill


Cambridge University Press

2023-06-08

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English is one of the most widely-spoken languages in the world, with native-speaking communities at the furthest ends of the earth. However, just three thousand years ago, the language-which-became-English was not spoken anywhere in Britain....

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Télécharger le livre :  European Language Matters
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European Language Matters


Peter Trudgill


Why do Greek lorries have Metaphorés written on the side? Is it grammatically correct to say 'the best team won' after a football match? What is the difference between manly, male, masculine and macho? Bringing together Peter Trudgill's highly popular columns for the...

Parution : 2021-11-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Millennia of Language Change
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Millennia of Language Change


Peter Trudgill


Were Stone-Age languages really more complex than their modern counterparts? Was Basque actually once spoken over all of Western Europe?Were Welsh-speaking slaves truly responsible for the loss of English morphology? This latest collection of Peter Trudgill's most...

Parution : 2020-04-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Dialect Matters
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Dialect Matters


Peter Trudgill


Based on Peter Trudgill's weekly column in the Eastern Daily Press newspaper, this book has two overall messages. The first is that language is a fascinating and enjoyable phenomenon which not enough people know enough about. The second is that we should not...

Parution : 2016-08-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Further Studies in the Lesser-Known Varieties of English
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Further Studies in the Lesser-Known Varieties of English


Edgar W. Schneider , Daniel Schreier , Peter Trudgill , Jeffrey P. Williams


This volume follows on from The Lesser-Known Varieties of English (Cambridge, 2010), by documenting a further range of varieties that have been overlooked and understudied. It explores varieties spoken by small groups of people in remote regions as diverse as Malta,...

Parution : 2015-04-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable
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Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable


David Gil , Geoffrey Sampson , Peter Trudgill


This book presents a challenge to the widely-held assumption that human languages are both similar and constant in their degree of complexity. For a hundred years or more the universal equality of languages has been a tenet of faith among most anthropologists and...

Parution : 2009-02-26
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Sociolinguistics
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Sociolinguistics


Peter Trudgill


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...

Parution : 2000-08-03
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Éditeur : Penguin
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