TY  - GEN
AU  - Trudgill,Peter
TI  - Sociolinguistic variation and change 
SN  - 0748615156
U1  - 428 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Edinburgh 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Dialect, slang & jargon
KW  - Language-Study and teaching
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  - English language-Social aspects
KW  - Language Arts
KW  - Linguistics
N1  - Paperback
N2  - Sociolinguistic Variation and Change is a selection of Peter Trudgill's major works since 1990, appearing here in updated and revised form. The book deals with a number of different but related topics: *The role of English in the world, and the nature of Standard English or Englishes *Language as a human issue and how sociolinguistic research might solve educational and other real-world problems *The problematic and interconnected relationships between nation and language and dialect, and the linguistic characteristics of the varieties concerned *Sociohistorical linguistics, in particular the relationship between colonial and motherland varieties of English; dialect contact and language contact; and the sociolinguistically informed dialectology of linguistic change. The major overall unifying theme of the book is linguistic variation and, as the diachronic outcome of linguistic variation, linguistic change
ER  -