Curriculum Vitae: PETER TRUDGILL Departamento de Filología Inglesa Facultad de Letras 2018 Curriculum Vitae: Peter Trudgill Address 6 Amelia House Colegate Norwich NR3 1DD Reino Unido Born on November 7, 1943 in Norwich, England E-Mail: [email protected] Appointments •Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics, University of Fribourg, 2005- •Honorary Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK 2005- •Department of Foreign Languages, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway: Professor of Sociolinguistics, 2006-2016 •Centre for Research on Language Diversity, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia: Adjunct Professor, 2006-2014 •Department of English, University of Fribourg, Switzerland: Professor of English Linguistics, 1998-2005 •Department of English, University of Lausanne, Switzerland: Professor of English Language and Linguistics, 1993-98 •Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex: Professor of Sociolinguistics (Personal Chair), 1987-92 Reader in Sociolinguistics, 1986-87 •Department of Linguistic Science, University of Reading, UK: Professor (Personal Chair), 1983-86 Reader, 1978-83 Lecturer, 1973-78 Assistant Lecturer, 1970-73 Education and qualifications • BA (MA) in Modern and Mediaeval Languages, King’s College, Cambridge, 1963-66 • Postgraduate Diploma in General Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, 1966- 67 • PhD in Linguistics (Sociolinguistics), University of Edinburgh, 1967-70 • PhD thesis, 1971: The social differentiation of English in Norwich 1 Honours and recognition • Doctorate Honoris Causa, Faculty of Letters, Uppsala University, Sweden, June 2, 1995 • Honorary Doctorate (LittD), University of East Anglia, July 11, 2002. • Honorary Doctorate, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, November 9th, 2005. • Honorary Doctorate, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, November 30th, 2018. • Honorary Doctorate, University of Patras, Greece, 14th May 2019. • Lifetime Honorary Member, Linguistic Society of America, 2011. • Adam Mickiewicz University Medal of Merit, Poznan, Poland, September 2017 • Fellow of the British Academy, elected 1989 • Fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, elected 1995 • Fellow of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, elected 1996 • Fellow of the Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters, Norway, elected 2003 • Fellow of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture, elected 2003 • Fellow of the Academia Europaea, elected 2009 • President of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 1992-93 • Vice-President of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 1993-94 • Biographical/professional entry Who’s Who, 1985- Festschrift: • David Britain and Jenny Cheshire (eds.) Social dialectology: in honour of Peter Trudgill. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 343, 2003. Book: • J. M. Hernandez Campoy, Sociolingüistica Británica: introducción a la obra de Peter Trudgill. Barcelona: Ediciones Octaedro. 273 pages, 1995. Visiting Professorships/Fellowships • University of Hong Kong, May-June 1976 • University of Bergen, Norway, November 1976 • University of Århus, Denmark, August-December 1977 • Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana), June-August 1978 • Stanford University, California, March-May 1980 • Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, July-August 1980 • International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, July-August 1981 • Australian National University, Canberra, July-August 1982 • University of Texas, Austin, January-April 1983 • University of Toronto, Canada, June-July 1983 • Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Stanford University, July- August 1987 • University of Tromsø, Norway, August-September 1988 2 • University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, February-April 1990 • University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1995-7 • University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 1995-8 • University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 1998-2001 • RCLT, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, November 2005 • Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, March-June 2006. • Henrietta Harvey Distinguished Lecturer, Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada, September 2006 • University of Freiburg, Germany, December 2006 • University of Vienna, Austria, May 2007 • Multilingualism Research Centre, University of Hamburg, Germany, December 2007. Invited papers given at conferences in the following polities (other than UK) • Denmark, Faroes, Finland, Norway, Spitzbergen, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Lithuania • Morocco • Canada, Colombia, USA • Hong Kong, Japan • Australia, New Zealand Invited lectures given at the following overseas universities/colleges • Denmark: Århus, Copenhagen, Odense (Southern Denmark) • Finland: Helsinki, Jyväskylä, Tampere, Turku, Vaasa • Norway: Bergen, Agder (Kristiansand), Oslo, Tromsø, Trondheim • Sweden: Gothenburg, Lund, Stockholm, Uppsala, Växjö • Austria: Graz, Klagenfurt, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Vienna • Germany: Augsburg, Bremen, Bonn, Cologne, Dortmund, Erlangen, Freiburg, Hanover, Heidelberg, Humboldt (Berlin), Munich, Potsdam, Trier • Switzerland: Basle, Berne, Lausanne, Neuchatel, Zurich, St. Gallen, Lugano • France: Grenoble, Chambéry, Paris • Belgium: Antwerp, Brussels Vrije Universiteit, Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Liège, Ghent. • The Netherlands: Nijmegen, Radbout Nijmegen, Utrecht • Spain: Alicante, Murcia, Almeria, Malaga, Valencia, La Laguna (Tenerife). • Portugal: Lisbon, • Italy: Catania, Naples, Palermo, Rome, Milan (Catholic Universtity) • Greece: Athens, Thessaloniki • Czech Republic: Prague, Brno, Olomouc • Poland: Poznan, Kraków, Warsaw • Hungary: Karl Marx (Budapest), Veszprem • India: Delhi, Mysore, Osmania (Hyderabad) • Japan: Nagoya, International Christian (Tokyo), Kyoto, Tokyo Metropolitan 3 • Hong Kong: Chinese University, Hong Kong University • Singapore: Nanyang University • Thailand: Bangkok • USA: California (Santa Barbara), Chicago, Duke, Florida International (Miami), Georgetown, Hawaii, Illinois (Urbana), Pennsylvania, Michigan, Stanford, Texas (Austin) • Canada: Manitoba, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec (Montreal), Toronto • Colombia: Cali • Australia: Adelaide, LaTrobe, Monash, Queensland, W. Australia (Perth) • New Zealand: Auckland, Canterbury (Christchurch), Hamilton, Otago (Dunedin), Palmerston North, Victoria (Wellington) • Fiji: South Pacific (Suva) • Malawi: Malawi (Blantyre) Invited lectures given at the following UK universities: • Scotland: Aberdeen, Edinburgh • N. Ireland: Queen’s (Belfast), New University of Ulster • Wales: Lampeter, UWIST, Cardiff • England: Bath, Bristol, Cambridge, East Anglia, Essex, Exeter, Hertfordshire, Hull, Lancaster, Leeds, LSE, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, Salford, Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam, SOAS, Surrey, Sussex, UCL, Queen Mary, York, West of England. Broadcasting Interviews for: • Radio:BBC World Service, BBC1, BBC2, BBC 3, BBC4, BBC5, • NRK (Norway), ABC (Australia), Swedish Radio. • Television: BBC 1, Nationwide, Look East, TV South (UK), Ulster TV • TV Barcelona (Spain), Hungarian Language Service Romania • Participation in television programs for: o BBC2 Forty Minutes o NRK Norwegian Today o NRK Norwegian in Europe • Consultant for: o BBC TV The Story of English o BBC TV Language File Journalism • Regular weekly column (Mondays) in the Eastern Daily Press (Norwich, UK) on language and dialect 2012 – 2016, total 220. • Regular column on language and languages in Europe in the weekly UK newspaper The New European July, 2016–, to date 62. PhD theses supervised to date: 33 4 Languages • Norwegian: good knowledge, moderate fluency • French: good knowledge, poor fluency • German: good knowledge, poor fluency • Greek: moderate knowledge, moderate fluency • Reading knowledge of: Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, Italian Special responsibilities Honorary President, Friends of Norfolk Dialect Society Committee membership • Social Science Research Council Linguistics Panel, 1975-78 • Academic Advisory Board, Linguistic Minorities Project, London University Institute of Education, 1979-82 • Advisory Group, European Science Foundation Adult Language Acquisition Project, 1981-83 • Longman’s Advisory Panel on Linguistics and Lexicography, 1981-present • Social Science Research Council Education and Human Development Committee, 1982 • Institute for Functional Research of Language and Language Use, University of Amsterdam, 1988-92 • CNAA Advisory Panel, 1988-90 • Evaluation Committee on Linguistics, University of East Anglia, 1989 • Committee for Swiss Association of Applied Linguistics, 1993-1998 • Appointment Committee for Swedish Chair in Sociolinguistics, 1980 • Appointment Committee for Tromsø University Chair of English, 1989 • Member of International Board of Advisors, Instituut voor Functioneel Onderzoek van Taal en Taalgebruik, Leiden and Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1990-1995 • Appointment Committee for Chair of English Linguistics, Neuchatel, 2001. • Appointment Committee for Chair of English Linguistics, Bergen Norway, 2004. • Standing Committee British Academy Linguistics and Philology Section, 2007-10 • Appointment Committee for Associate Professorship in English Linguistics, Tromsø, Norway, 2007 • International Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, 2013-2015. Publishing responsibilities ➢ Series Editor, Basil Blackwell’s Language in Society, 1977- ➢ Regional English Consultant,