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Accommodation versus identity? A response to Trudgill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2008

EDGAR W. SCHNEIDER
EDGAR W. SCHNEIDER
Affiliation:
Department of English and American Studies, University of Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany, [email protected]
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Peter Trudgill's essay raises important issues, some of which are uncontroversial while others are less convincing, partly because of a narrow concept of identity and partly because of an infelicitous choice of case studies. For him, the denial of identity seems axiomatic, while I suggest that what his criticism boils down to is the relationship between accommodation and identity, and the question of when and how identity as a social concept is effective, specifically in processes of colonial and postcolonial dialect formation.

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Language in Society , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 262 - 267
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© 2008 Cambridge University Press

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