An invitation to (socio)linguistics

Richard Hudson

You can open or download the slideshow (in Powerpoint) that I used in a talk to students of the UCL Language Centre on 12th August 2003.

If you want to know more about linguistics you may like to look at the website of the UCL Department of Phonetics and Linguistics.

Or you could wander round the excellent web guide to linguistics produced by the Linguistic Society of America, or the site for linguistics in British universities, which includes a list of places where you can study the subject.

Or you could even read my small book "An Invitation to Linguistics" (Blackwell, 1984), though it is rather old now.

For more information about sociolinguistics, you could read one of these books:

• Peter Trudgill: Sociolinguistics: An introduction to language and society. (Penguin 2000) - popular and very readable.
• Richard Hudson: Sociolinguistics. (Cambridge University Press) - an academic textbook.

Or you could browse the web-site for my sociolinguistics course.

For a little more about naming in English, try this popular article for school teachers.