{"product_id":"sociolinguistic-typology-social-determinants-of-linguistic-complexity-9780199604357","title":"Sociolinguistic Typology: Social Determinants of Linguistic Complexity","description":"Peter Trudgill looks at why human societies at different times and places produce different kinds of language. He considers how far social factors influence language structure and compares languages and dialects spoken across the globe, from Vietnam to Nigeria, Polynesia to Scandinavia, and\u003cbr\u003efrom Canada to Amazonia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eModesty prevents Pennsylvanian Dutch Mennonites using the verb wotte ('want'); stratified society lies behind complicated Japanese honorifics; and a mountainous homeland suggests why speakers of Tibetan-Burmese Lahu have words for up there and down there. But culture and environment don't explain\u003cbr\u003ewhy Amazonian Jarawara needs three past tenses, nor why Nigerian Igbo can make do with eight adjectives, nor why most languages spoken in high altitudes do not exhibit an array of spatial demonstratives. Nor do they account for some languages changing faster than others or why some get more complex\u003cbr\u003ewhile others get simpler. The author looks at these and many other puzzles, exploring the social, linguistic, and other factors that might explain them and in the context of a huge range of languages and societies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePeter Trudgill writes readably, accessibly, and congenially. His book is jargon-free, informed by acute observation, and enlivened by argument: it will appeal to everyone with an interest in the interactions of language with culture, environment, and society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Trudgill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/17\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199604357\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Trudgill \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Agder, Norway. He has held Chairs in Linguistics at the Universities of Reading, Essex, Lausanne, and Fribourg (where he is now Emeritus). He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University and Honorary Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of East Anglia. His many books include \u003cem\u003eSociolinguistics: an Introduction to Language and Society\u003c\/em\u003e (Penguin, 1974, 4th edn 2000), \u003cem\u003eOn Dialect\u003c\/em\u003e (Blackwell, 1983), \u003cem\u003eDialects in Contact\u003c\/em\u003e (Blackwell, 1986), \u003cem\u003eThe Dialects of England\u003c\/em\u003e (Blackwell 1990, 2nd end 1999), \u003cem\u003eNew-Dialect Formation: on the Inevitability of Colonial Englishes\u003c\/em\u003e (Edinburgh, 2004), and \u003cem\u003eInvestigations in Sociohistorical Linguistics: Stories of Colonisation and Contact\u003c\/em\u003e (CUP 2010).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39934236328051,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_72c8b968-1bfb-42cd-96b3-37c4457aacd4.jpg?v=1647878410","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/sociolinguistic-typology-social-determinants-of-linguistic-complexity-9780199604357","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}