This book is a selection of Peter Trudgill's major works since 1990, appearing here in updated and revised form.

The study of variation and change is at the heart of the sociolinguistics. Providing a wide survey of the field, this textbook is organised around three constra

Investigates when and how preschool children acquire the vernacular norms of the community they come from.

This monograph takes up recent advances in social network methods in sociology, together with data on economic segregation, in order to build a quantitative ana

Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation presents a comprehensive, intermediate level examination of Language Variation and Change, th