Dialect, slang & jargon books

This volume is a collection of new writings dealing with some of the Balkan linguistic varieties spoken in north-eastern,...  Read More >>

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The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang offers the ultimate record of modern, post WW2 American Slang....  Read More >>

This reference work presents the full breadth of current research on youth languages, examining adolescent language...  Read More >>

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Through a detailed examination of proverbs related to money, this book offers a comprehensive critique of the prevailing...  Read More >>

This book explores the nautical history of some of our most common expressions in an entertaining and informative...  Read More >>

This book examines the intersection of culture and language in Ireland and Irish contexts. Over the course of the...  Read More >>

From ‘A1’ to ‘Zulu’, the fully revised and updated third edition of Jackspeak is a comprehensive guide to the slang...  Read More >>

This book analyses data from a variety of sources, including soap operas, movies, plays, talk shows and other audiovisual...  Read More >>

This book adopts a phylogenetic perspective in explaining the linguistic diversity within the major Chinese dialect...  Read More >>

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Essential study guides for the future linguist.  Read More >>

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This volume showcases linguistic approaches to the study of pop culture and their potential to inform linguistic...  Read More >>

The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of...  Read More >>

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For thirty years Jonathon Green has been collecting slang – the indefinable language of the gutter, the brothel,...  Read More >>

This book discusses the relation between identity and dialects.  Read More >>

Heller and McElhinny reinterpret sociolinguistics for the twenty-first century with an original approach to the...  Read More >>

This book discusses the relation between identity and dialects.  Read More >>

Slang books are perennial strong sellers Up to date with the latest slang expressions Fun to read with an attitude...  Read More >>

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