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Brandeis university peter trudgill s sociolinguistics is a well writ ten and informative introduction to the study of linguistic variation as a social phenomenon. Nearly all of us have regional features in the way we speak and this is part of our identity. Trudgill studied modern languages at kings college, cambridge and obtained a phd from the university of. He was professor of english language and linguistics at the university of lausanne and at the university of fribourg, switzerland, from which he retired in september 2005. Irvine brandeis university peter trudgill s sociolinguistics is a well writ ten and informative introduction to the study of linguistic variation as a social phenomenon.
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