- Peter Trudgill
Professor Peter Trudgill (pronounced [ˈtɹʌd.gɪl] ) (born
1943 inNorwich ,England ) is asociolinguist ,academic andauthor . He grew up inNorwich , where he attended theCity of Norwich School from 1955.Trudgill studied
modern languages atKing's College, Cambridge . He was later awarded a Ph.D. from theUniversity of Edinburgh in 1971. He taught in the Department of linguistic science at theUniversity of Reading from 1970 to1986 , before becomingprofessor ofsociolinguistics at theUniversity of Essex . He wasprofessor ofEnglish language andlinguistics at theUniversity of Lausanne from 1993 to1998 , and after that at theUniversity of Fribourg ,Switzerland , from which he retired in September 2005. He is now part time professor of sociolinguistics at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway; and adjunct professor at the Research centre for linguistic typology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, as well as honorary professor at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England.He has carried out linguistic fieldwork in Britain,
Greece andNorway , and has lectured in mostEuropean countries ,Canada , theUnited States ,Colombia ,Australia ,New Zealand ,India ,Thailand ,Hong Kong ,Fiji ,Malawi andJapan . Peter Trudgill is the honorary president of the Friends ofNorfolk dialect society, and a fellow of the British Academy.Trudgill is a well-known authority on
dialects , as well as being one of the first to apply Laboviansociolinguistic methodology in the UK, and to provide a framework for studying dialect contact phenomena.Bibliography
His works include:
*"The Social Differentiation of English in Norwich" (based on his Ph.D. thesis)
* 1976 "Introduction to Sociolinguistics"
* 1978 "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)
* 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)
* 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)
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