Sociolinguistics : an introduction created by Peter Trudgill

By:

Trudgill, Peter [author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Harmondsworth Penguin Books, 1974Description: 189 pagesISBN:

0140218025

Subject(s):

Sociolinguistics

Contents:

Chapter 1 Socoloinguistics - language and society, 2 - Language and social class, 3 - Language and ethnic group, 4 - Language and sex, 5 - Language and context, 6 - Language and nation, 7 - Language and geography.

Summary: In this introductory survey Peter Trudgill shows how class, race, sex, religion, environment and region are among the factors which father differences in and between langauges; and how, on the other hand, laguage may sometimes condition thought and so, indirectly, society. He naturally gives consiiderable space to the extraordinaryily wider variations in spoken English, but many other languages are considered in his exposition of the social and historical roots of grammar, accent and dialect, and of such phenomena as kinship terms, taboo words and multilingual socities.

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Inlcudes bibliographical references and index

In this introductory survey Peter Trudgill shows how class, race, sex, religion, environment and region are among the factors which father differences in and between langauges; and how, on the other hand, laguage may sometimes condition thought and so, indirectly, society. He naturally gives consiiderable space to the extraordinaryily wider variations in spoken English, but many other languages are considered in his exposition of the social and historical roots of grammar, accent and dialect, and of such phenomena as kinship terms, taboo words and multilingual socities.

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