Peter Trudgill

Professor Peter Trudgill (pronounced [ˈtɹʌd.gɪl] ) (born 1943 in Norwich, England) 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. He is now part time professor of sociolinguistics at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway; and adjunct professor at the Research centre for linguistic typology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, as well as honorary professor at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England.

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.

Bibliography

His works include:

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