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Contact is not enough: A response to Trudgill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2008

JANET HOLMES  and
PAUL KERSWILL
JANET HOLMES
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
PAUL KERSWILL
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University LA1 4YT, UK, p.kerswill@lancaster.ac.uk
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Extract

There is much that any sociolinguist would agree with in Peter Trudgill's essay. It is written in his usual lucid style, and supported by a wealth of detail, reflecting his extensive knowledge, research, and scholarly expertise. However, it is stimulatingly provocative on the issue of why particular variants win out in dialect contact situations. Our response falls into two sections: (i) the identity issue, and (ii) the New Zealand situation.

Type
DISCUSSION
Information
Language in Society , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 273 - 277
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© 2008 Cambridge University Press

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