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This selection of Trudgill's major works since 1988, appearing here in updated and revised form, reveals major recurring themes in his work on linguistic diversity. This book evinces his deep concern that the world's linguistic diversity is diminishing at an alarming rate. The linguistic future is likely to be very different from the past, because increased language contact among people will result in the creation of fewer new languages to balance the language deaths. The essays here manifest Trudgill's conviction that linguists must make every effort to study minority languages and dialects before they vanish. The book also demonstrates his sense of obligation that linguists have to educate the public about why linguistic diversity is valuable.

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Another landmark in Trudgill's formative and continual influence on the field of sociolinguistics. It displays the amazing breadth and depth of Trudgill's understanding of both the processes and the outcomes of language change and variation. No one does it better! -- Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University An illuminating and authoritative statement, up to date in its coverage and wide ranging in its treatment, but above all conveying the profound concern for sociolinguistic issues and outcomes that is Peter Trudgill's trademark. -- David Crystal, University of Wales

An illuminating and authoritative statement, up to date in its coverage and wide ranging in its treatment, but above all conveying the profound concern for sociolinguistic issues and outcomes that is Peter Trudgill's trademark. --David Crystal, University of Wales Another landmark in Trudgill's formative and continual influence on the field of sociolinguistics. It displays the amazing breadth and depth of Trudgill's understanding of both the processes and the outcomes of language change and variation. No one does it better! --Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University

An illuminating and authoritative statement, up to date in its coverage and wide ranging in its treatment, but above all conveying the profound concern for sociolinguistic issues and outcomes that is Peter Trudgill's trademark. --David Crystal, University of Wales Another landmark in Trudgill's formative and continual influence on the field of sociolinguistics. It displays the amazing breadth and depth of Trudgill's understanding of both the processes and the outcomes of language change and variation. No one does it better! --Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University

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Peter Trudgill is professor of English linguistics at the bilingual University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has an Honorary Doctorate from Uppsala University.

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