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Peter Trudgill

Dialects In Contact

B. Blackwell (1986)

9780631127338

| Paperback

174 pages | English

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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.