Peter Trudgill is currently Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is the author of: English Accents and Dialects (with Arthur Hughes); International English (with Jean Hannah); Applied Sociolinguistics; Language in the British Isles; The Dialects of England; The Sociolinguistics Reader (with Jenny Cheshire); and the Penguin books Bad Language (with Lars Andersson) and Introducing Language and Society. He lives in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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• List of Figures, Maps and TablesAcknowledgmentsPhonetic Symbols1. Sociolinguistics—Language and Society2. Language and Social Class3. Language and Ethnic Group4. Language and Sex5. Language and Context6. Language and Social Interaction7. Language and Nation8. Language and Geography9. Language and HumanityAnnotated Bibliography and Further ReadingIndex

Peter Trudgill is currently Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is the author of: English Accents and Dialects (with Arthur Hughes); International English (with Jean Hannah); Applied Sociolinguistics; Language in the British Isles; The Dialects of England; The Sociolinguistics Reader (with Jenny Cheshire); and the Penguin books Bad Language (with Lars Andersson) and Introducing Language and Society. He lives in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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• List of Figures, Maps and TablesAcknowledgmentsPhonetic Symbols1. Sociolinguistics—Language and Society2. Language and Social Class3. Language and Ethnic Group4. Language and Sex5. Language and Context6. Language and Social Interaction7. Language and Nation8. Language and Geography9. Language and HumanityAnnotated Bibliography and Further ReadingIndex

Peter Trudgill is currently Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is the author of: English Accents and Dialects (with Arthur Hughes); International English (with Jean Hannah); Applied Sociolinguistics; Language in the British Isles; The Dialects of England; The Sociolinguistics Reader (with Jenny Cheshire); and the Penguin books Bad Language (with Lars Andersson) and Introducing Language and Society. He lives in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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• List of Figures, Maps and TablesAcknowledgmentsPhonetic Symbols1. Sociolinguistics—Language and Society2. Language and Social Class3. Language and Ethnic Group4. Language and Sex5. Language and Context6. Language and Social Interaction7. Language and Nation8. Language and Geography9. Language and HumanityAnnotated Bibliography and Further ReadingIndex