Publications

Publication details [#35026]

Trudgill, Peter. 1986. Dialects in contact. (Language in Society 10). Basil Blackwell. viii + 174 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | language change | language contact

Language as a subject

Bhojpuri | English, American | English, British | Norwegian

Annotation

This book deals with interdialect contact and influence, with the social and geographic spread of lingistic forms, and with the formation of new dialects. Most cases concern dialects of English.

Reviewed by

Coupland, Nikolas. 1988. Review of $Dialects in contact.

Rickford, John R. 1990. Review of $Dialects in contact.