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Dialects In Contact
Peter Trudgill

Dialects In Contact

B. Blackwell (1986)
9780631127338
| Paperback
174 pages | English
Dewey 427
LC Classification PE1711 .T7 1986
LC Control No. 85030815

Subject

  • English Language
  • English Language/ Dialects
  • English Language/ Social Aspects
  • Language Arts & Disciplines / General
  • Languages In Contact

Plot

An attempt to observe and account for the influence mutually intelligible dialects of a language have on one another when they come into contact. It examines linguistic accommodation in face-to-face interaction and argues that accommodation is crucial to an understanding of longer-term phenomena.