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Social Sciences and Humanities
Switzerland
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
57
Citations
31246
World Ranking
1703
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2009 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Peter Trudgill is affiliated with the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Arts and Humanities as well as Social Sciences, with particular emphasis on Language and Linguistics and Linguistics and Language as subfields.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Linguistics and language evolution
  • Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
  • Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
  • Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Multilingual Education and Policy

Frequent coauthors of Peter Trudgill are:

  • Elena Babatsouli
  • Ocke-Schwen Bohn
  • Jennifer James
  • William Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak
  • Michał Kretzschmar

The scientist has published regularly in several venues, including:

  • Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics
  • Studia Anglica Posnaniensia
  • Cahiers du Centre de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage

Recent papers by Peter Trudgill include:

  • "Sociolinguistic typology and the speed of linguistic change", 2020, Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics
  • "The East Anglian Dialect of English in the World", 2021, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia
  • "The Great East Anglian Merger Mystery", 2022, Cahiers du Centre de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage
  • "Index", 2020, Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • "Index", 2021, Cambridge University Press eBooks

Peter Trudgill has published several books with Cambridge University Press, including:

  • "Millennia of Language Change" (2020)
  • "The Long Journey of English" (2023)
  • "European Language Matters" (2021)

The scientist was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society

    Peter Trudgill

  • Dialects in contact

    Peter Trudgill

  • The Social Differentiation of English in Norwich

    Peter J. Trudgill

  • Sex, covert prestige and linguistic change in the urban British English of Norwich

    Peter Trudgill

  • International English: A Guide to the Varieties of Standard English

    Peter Trudgill;Jean Hannah

  • English Accents and Dialects : An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles

    A. Hughes;P. Trudgill;Dominic James Landon Watt

  • On Dialect: Social and Geographical Perspectives.

    Peter Trudgill

  • New-Dialect Formation: The Inevitability of Colonial Englishes

    Peter Trudgill

  • The handbook of language variation and change

    J. K. Chambers;Peter Trudgill;Natalie Schilling-Estes

  • The dialects of England

    Peter Trudgill

  • Sociolinguistic Typology: Social Determinants of Linguistic Complexity

    Peter Trudgill

  • Linguistic Change and Diffusion: Description and Explanation in Sociolinguistic Dialect Geography.

    Peter Trudgill

  • Sociolinguistic Variation and Change

    Peter Trudgill

  • Dialectology: MECHANISMS OF VARIATION

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  • A Glossary of Sociolinguistics

    Peter Trudgill

  • New Zealand English: Its Origins and Evolution

    Elizabeth Gordon;Lyle Campbell;Jennifer Hay;Margaret Maclagan

  • Sociolinguistic patterns in British English

    Peter Trudgill

  • Sociolinguistics : an introduction

    Peter Trudgill

  • Language in the British Isles

    Peter Trudgill

  • Colonial dialect contact in the history of European languages: On the irrelevance of identity to new-dialect formation

    Peter Trudgill

  • Alternative histories of English

    Richard J. Watts;Peter Trudgill

  • Gender and discourse

    Jenny Cheshire;Peter Trudgill

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer Hay
Jennifer Hay University of Canterbury
Jenny Cheshire
Jenny Cheshire Queen Mary University of London
Howard Giles
Howard Giles University of California, Santa Barbara
Richard Y. Bourhis
Richard Y. Bourhis University of Quebec at Montreal
Paul Kerswill
Paul Kerswill University of York
Alan Lewis
Alan Lewis University of Bath

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