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sociolinguist Peter Trudgill noted as long ago as the 1970s that language use had begun to change, and to some extent to level out, in smaller towns due to the undue influence of larger, more culturally dominant cities... The urge to devalue regional accents is part of a deliberate
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Trudgill is also the author of Chapter 1 ("The Meanings of Words Should Not be Allowed to Vary or Change") of the popular linguistics book "Language Myths" that he co-edited.
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society since its inception in 1999. and contributes a regular column on language and languages in Europe to the New European newspaper.
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Since February 2017, Trudgill has written weekly columns relating to European languages in the weekly newspaper
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Aveyard, Edward (2023). "The Atlas Linguarum Europae in Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland".
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methodology in the UK, and to provide a framework for studying dialect contact phenomena.
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Norwegian as a normal language and other studies in Scandinavian linguistics.
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Sociolinguistic Typology: Social Determinants of Linguistic Complexity
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The Long Journey of English: A Geographical History of the Language.
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and Japan. Peter Trudgill has been the president of the Friends of
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New-Dialect Formation: The Inevitability of Colonial Englishes
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from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially
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in the 1970s, doing some research on the East Anglian sites.
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from 1970 to 1986. He was professor of English language and
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Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society
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he taught in the Department of Linguistic Science at the
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Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
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Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 20 November 2012 (video)
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He is an honorary Professor of Sociolinguistics at the
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The Lesser-Known Varieties of English: An Introduction
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Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language
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At the end of 2017, he signed the 20: 1114:Alumni of King's College, Cambridge 13: 489:Declaration on the Common Language 390:from the Faculty of Humanities at 14: 1170: 1099:Linguists from the United Kingdom 1062: 921:Hillard, Nat (13 February 2010). 793:Scheer, Victoria (26 June 2019). 16:English sociolinguist (born 1943) 826:. Cambridge : University Press. 624:Alternative Histories of English 611:Introducing Language and Society 534:Introduction to Sociolinguistics 275: 25: 1031: 1006: 981: 966: 510: 1134:Fellows of the British Academy 940: 914: 879: 855:Hanley, Lynsey (16 May 2016). 848: 813: 786: 761: 735: 713: 637:A Glossary of Sociolinguistics 569:(Blackwell, 2nd edition, 1986) 540:Accent, Dialect and the School 462:He has carried out studies on 1: 801:. 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Alma mater
King's College, Cambridge
University of Edinburgh
sociolinguistics
University of Essex
University of Reading
University of Lausanne
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