Peter Trudgill

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Professor Peter Trudgill (pronounced [ˈtɹʌd.gɪl]), born 1943 in Norwich, England, UK, is a sociolinguist, academic and author. He grew up in Norwich, where he attended the City of Norwich School from 1955.

Trudgill studied modern languages at King's College, Cambridge. He was later awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1971. He taught in the Department of linguistic science at the University of Reading from 1970 to 1986, before becoming professor of sociolinguistics at the University of Essex. He was professor of English language and linguistics at the University of Lausanne from 1993 to 1998, and after that at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, from which he retired in September 2005. Nonetheless, he continues to lecture part-time in the School of language, linguistics and translation studies (LLT) at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, where he is honorary professor of sociolinguistics. He is also adjunct professor of sociolinguistics at Agder University in Kristiansand, Norway; and adjunct professor at the Research centre for linguistic typology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

He has carried out linguistic fieldwork in Britain, Greece and Norway, and has lectured in most European countries, Canada, the United States, Colombia, Australia, New Zealand, India, Thailand, Hong Kong, Fiji, Malawi and Japan. Peter Trudgill is the honorary president of the Friends of Norfolk 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 Labovian sociolinguistic methodology in the UK, and to provide a framework for studying dialect contact phenomena.

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His works include:

The Social Differentiation of English in Norwich (based on his Ph.D. thesis)
1984 Applied Sociolinguistics
1986 Dialects in Contact
1998 Language Myths (with Laurie Bauer)
1992 Introducing Language and Society
1979 English Accents and Dialects (with Arthur Hughes)
1982 International English (with Jean Hannah)
1990 The Dialects of England
1990 Bad Language (with Lars Andersson)
1983 On Dialect: Social and Geographical Perspectives
1984 Language in the British Isles
1976 Introduction to Sociolinguistics
1980 Dialectology (with J. K. Chambers)
1978 Accent, Dialect and the School
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)