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Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society, Fourth Edition (original 2001; udgave 2001)

af Peter Trudgill

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The way we talk is deeply influenced by our class, sex and ethnic background. It can also have a profound effect on how we are perceived by others. In this fully updated new edition of a classic text, Peter Trudgill explores the evidence - and the huge implications for social and educational policy . Why do men swear more than women? How do speech styles of most Black Americans, and whites growing up in 'Black areas' differ from those of other whites? Does it make sense to defend a language against 'contamination' from foreign words and phrases? Such questions illuminate many fascinatin g aspects of human communication, but they also lie at the heart of fierce political debates about how states should deal with their linguistic minorities, when teachers should correct their pupils' grammar and pronunciation, and whether language promotes racial and sexual stereotypes. Only sociolinguists can provide objective answers- their key conclusions are set out in this celebrated book.… (mere)
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Titel:Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society, Fourth Edition
Forfattere:Peter Trudgill
Info:Penguin (Non-Classics) (2001), Edition: 4, Paperback, 240 pages
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Interesting discussion of language use. The back cover blurb makes it seem like a “pop psychology” book – with questions like “Why do men swear more than women?” and “…is standard French ‘better’ than Québécois or High German ‘better; than Schweizerdeutsch?” However, inside it’s pretty technical, with terms like “nonprevocalic /r/” and “affinitive affix”. Individual chapters discuss language and social class (author Peter Trudgill is English; he notes two English people who have never met before will discuss the weather – not because they are interested in meteorology but so each can determine the other’s social class); language and ethnic group (in the former Yugoslavia, people from Croatia call their language Croatian, people from Serbia call it Serbian, and now that Bosnia is independent people there speak Bosnian – but it’s all the same language; language and sex (in English and Hungarian, it’s possible to write a novel in the first person without a linguistic way of determining if the narrator is male or female, but other languages have gender differences in adjectives, verbs and pronouns and in some women’s language is very different from men’s). (And to answer the question on the back cover, women from many cultures use “better” language than men, the exception being cultures where women are denied education). Further chapters discuss language and context, language and nation, language and geography, language and contact, and language and humanity.

I found this a relatively easy read, despite the technical details. There are graphs and tables that show things like language difference between social classes and ethnic groups. No footnotes, but a “Suggestions for further reading” at the end. ( )
2 stem setnahkt | May 24, 2020 |
Read it for class. I know Trudgill is supposed to be top of the field, but but unless this is your thing, the writing is very dense and like listening to stuffed shirts pick apart the minutia of language. ( )
  AnnaHernandez | Oct 17, 2019 |
Ah, good old Trudgill. Reliable, though a little dated at the edges (even the most recent reissue talks about languages maybe not making it into the new millennium).

The book is a well-written introduction to the field, penned by a renowned expert who handles the subject matter with great confidence and experience. For a text dealing mainly with varieties of English, it features a balanced range of languages to draw examples from.

The organization is not always as tight as it could have been: several chapters do tend to meander a bit, and the selection and arrangement of information could have tended a little more towards the analytical. On the other hand, by not rigidly adhering to a structure, the book reads less as a textbook to be learnt by heart and more like an informed discussion of people's attitudes towards languages, dialects, and the people who speak them.

In all, this book serves eminently as a textbook for first year undergrads. I enjoyed teaching from it. ( )
  Petroglyph | Feb 9, 2014 |
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The way we talk is deeply influenced by our class, sex and ethnic background. It can also have a profound effect on how we are perceived by others. In this fully updated new edition of a classic text, Peter Trudgill explores the evidence - and the huge implications for social and educational policy . Why do men swear more than women? How do speech styles of most Black Americans, and whites growing up in 'Black areas' differ from those of other whites? Does it make sense to defend a language against 'contamination' from foreign words and phrases? Such questions illuminate many fascinatin g aspects of human communication, but they also lie at the heart of fierce political debates about how states should deal with their linguistic minorities, when teachers should correct their pupils' grammar and pronunciation, and whether language promotes racial and sexual stereotypes. Only sociolinguists can provide objective answers- their key conclusions are set out in this celebrated book.

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