Peter Trudgill
Peter Trudgill (Norwich, Anglaterra, Regne Unit, 7 de novembre de 1943), és un sociollingüiste i escritor anglés.
Biografia
Peter Trudgill naixqué en Norwich, Anglaterra, el 7 de novembre de l'any 1943 i va créixer en l'àrea de Thorpe St Andrew. Assistí a l'escola de la ciutat de Norwich des de 1955. Estudià idiomes moderns en el King's College de Cambridge i obtingué un doctorat en l'Universitat d'Edimburc en 1971.
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Obra
- 1974 The Social Differentiation of English in Norwich (based on his Ph.D. thesis)
- 1974 Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society
- 1976 Introduction to Sociolinguistics
- 1975 Accent, Dialect and the School
- 1979 English Accents and Dialects (with Arthur Hughes)
- 1980 Dialectology (with J. K. Chambers)
- 1982 International English (with Jean Hannah)
- 1982 Coping With America (Blackwell, 2nd edition, 1986)
- 1983 On Dialect: Social and Geographical Perspectives
- 1984 Language in the British Isles
- 1984 Applied Sociolinguistics
- 1986 Dialects in Contact
- 1990 The Dialects of England
- 1990 Bad Language (with Lars Andersson)
- 1992 Introducing Language and Society
- 1998 Language Myths (with Laurie Bauer)
- 2001 Alternative Histories of English (with Richard J. Watts)
- 2002 Sociolinguistic Variation and Change
- 2003 A Glossary of Sociolinguistics
- 2003 Norfolk Origins 7: The Norfolk Dialect
- 2004 New-Dialect Formation: The Inevitability of Colonial Englishes
- 2004 New Zealand English: Its Origins and Evolution (with et al. Elizabeth Gordon, Lyle Campbell, Margaret Maclagan, Andrea Sudbury, Jennifer Hay)
- 2008 In Sfakia: passing time in the wilds of Crete
- 2010 The Lesser-Known Varieties of English: An Introduction (with Daniel Schreier, Edgar W. Schneider)
- 2011 Sociolinguistic Typology: Social Determinants of Linguistic Complexity Oxford University Press
- 2016 Dialect matters: respecting vernacular language. Cambridge University Press
- 2018 Norwegian as a normal language and other studies in Scandinavian linguistics. Novus: Oslo
- 2023 The Long Journey of English: A Geographical History of the Language. Cambridge University Press
Cites
La llingüística és una ciència descriptiva, per lo tant el llingüiste es preocupa per descriure i donar conte de lo que realment diu el parlant, en lloc de regir-se per lo que certes 'autoritats' prescriuen de com lo deu dir.
Peter Trudgill