Professor Peter Trudgill (pronounced [ˈtɹʌd.gɪl]), born 1943 in Norwich, England, UK, is a sociolinguist, academic and author. He grew up in Norwich where he attended the City of Norwich School from 1955. 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Norwich (pronounced variously Norritch, Norridge) is a city in East Anglia, in Eastern England, and the regional administrative centre and county town of Norfolk. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages None official English de facto Capital None official London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked... Sociolinguistics is the study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used. ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... Norwich (pronounced variously Norritch, Norridge) is a city in East Anglia, in Eastern England, and the regional administrative centre and county town of Norfolk. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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 becaming 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. Nonetheless, he continues to lecture part-time in the school of Language, Linguistics and Translation Studies (LLT) at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, where he is Honorary Professor of Sociolinguistics. He is also Adjunct Professor of Sociolinguistics at Agder University in Kristiansand, Norway; and Adjunct Professor at the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. A modern language is any human language that is used by societies in the world today. ... Full name The Kings College of Our Lady and St Nicholas in Cambridge Motto Veritas Et Utilitas Truth and usefulness Named after Henry VI Previous names - Established 1441 Sister College(s) New College Provost Prof. ... Doctor of Philosophy, or Ph. ... The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... The University of Reading is a university in the English town of Reading. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... Sociolinguistics is the study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used. ... University of Essex The University of Essex is a British university, one of the plate glass universities (like Warwick or York). ... The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and someone who engages in this study is called a linguist. ... University of Lausanne, museum and library The University of Lausanne (in French: Université de Lausanne) or UNIL in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of theology, before being made a university in 1890. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... The University of Fribourg (in French: Université de Fribourg, in German: Universität Freiburg) is a university in the city of Fribourg, Switzerland. ... The famous ziggurats of the student accommodation at Norfolk Terrace, photographed in January 2004. ...

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. The aim of this page is to act as a comparison between European countries in many different aspects, such as population, GDP, life expectancy, etc. ...

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. A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος) is a variant, or variety, of a language spoken in a certain geographical area. ... William Labov (born December 4, 1927) is a professor in the linguistics department of the University of Pennsylvania. ... Sociolinguistics is the study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used. ...

Bibliography

His works include:

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