1. Words; 2. Food and Drink; 3. People; 4. Geography; 5. Cities; 6. Countries; 7. Languages; 8. Peoples; 9. Sounds; 10. Grammar; 11. Pedantry and Persecution; 12. Communication; 13. Sport; 14. Names.
Bringing together Trudgill's columns for the New European, this collection explores the influence of European language on English.
Peter Trudgill is a theoretical dialectologist who is the author of Dialects in Contact (1986), Sociolinguistic Typology (2011) and Investigations in Sociohistorical Linguistics (2010). He has Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Uppsala, East Anglia, La Trobe, British Colombia, and Patras.
'Peter Trudgill's ability to present such a broad selection of
topics in a scholarly and accessible way makes this book an ideal
companion for anyone who wants to explore languages and how they
work.' David Crystal, author of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the
English Language
'Peter Trudgill is one of the world's most eminent sociolinguists,
and an outstanding ambassador for the subject within the wider
community. His work over many years has transformed our
understanding of the social functioning of speech. This collection
of essays, originally written for a general audience, display his
characteristic linking of accessibility, social commitment, and
deep scholarship, and anyone who reads them, however expert, will
learn a great deal.' Jeremy Smith, University of Glasgow
'… a treasure house offering one serendipitous adventure after
another … Highly recommended.' A. P. Church, Choice Connect
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