Ebook: Social dialectology : in honour of Peter Trudgill
Author: Peter Trudgill, David Britain, Jenny Cheshire
- Series: Impact studies in language and society 16
- Year: 2003
- Publisher: John Benjamins Pub
- City: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
- Language: English
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The time-honoured study of dialects took a new turn some forty years ago, giving centre stage to social factors and the quantitative analysis of language variation and change. It has become a discipline that no scholar of language can afford to ignore. This collection identifies the main theoretical and methodological issues currently preoccupying researchers in social dialectology, drawing not only on variation inRead more...