Dialect, slang & jargon books

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Complexity, Isolation, and Variation

Complexity, Isolation, and Variation
Author: Raffaela Baechler , Guido Seiler ISBN: 9783110347388 Format: Hardback	$171.51
Complexity of grammatical structure has become a center of interest in recent typological and dialectological research.... Read More >>

500 Common Korean Idioms

500 Common Korean Idioms
Author: Danielle O. Pyun , Danielle Ooyoung Pyun ISBN: 9781315519494 Format: Paperback	$74.00
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Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English: New Methods and Insights

Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English:...
Author: Heike Pichler (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) ISBN: 9781107055766 Format: Hardback	$188.89
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The Language of Jokes: Analyzing Verbal Play

The Language of Jokes: Analyzing Verbal Play
Author: Delia Chiaro ISBN: 9781138144842 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Negation in Non-Standard British English: Gaps, Regularizations and Asymmetries

Negation in Non-Standard British English: Gaps, Regularizations...
Author: Lieselotte Anderwald ISBN: 9781138976863 Format: Paperback	$98.99
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The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Assyrian Christians of Urmi (4 vols)

The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Assyrian Christians of...
Author: Geoffrey Khan ISBN: 9789004313897 Format: Hardback	$2093.52
This work is a documentation of the Neo-Aramaic dialect spoken by Assyrian Christians in the region of Urmi (northwestern-Iran).... Read More >>

Coastal Dhofari Arabic: A Sketch Grammar

Coastal Dhofari Arabic: A Sketch Grammar
Author: Richard Davey ISBN: 9789004316706 Format: Hardback	$430.32
In Coastal Dhofari Arabic: A Sketch Grammar, Richard Davey provides a detailed account of the Phonology, Morphology... Read More >>

Doublespeak

Doublespeak
Author: William Lutz ISBN: 9781632460172 Format: Paperback	$34.99
Describes the four different types of doublespeak (euphemism, jargon, gobbledygook, and inflated language). Read More >>

Dialects for the Stage

Dialects for the Stage
Author: Evangeline Machlin ISBN: 9781138143876 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime

Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of...
Author: Jonathon Green ISBN: 9780099549994 Format: Paperback	$43.96
The language of crime has a long and venerable history - in fact, the first collection of words specifically used... Read More >>

Slang: A Very Short Introduction

Slang: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Jonathon Green (Independent scholar) ISBN: 9780198729532 Format: Paperback	$21.95
What words qualify as slang? Should slang be acknowledged as a language in itself? And what does the digital revolution... Read More >>

Cityscapes and Perceptual Dialectology: Global Perspectives on Non-Linguists’ Knowledge of the Dialect Landscape

Cityscapes and Perceptual Dialectology: Global Perspectives...
Author: Jennifer Cramer , Chris Montgomery ISBN: 9781614514770 Format: Hardback	$205.83
While connections between language and place have been central to traditional dialectology, the perceptions non-linguists... Read More >>

North East Arabian Dialects: Monograph 3

North East Arabian Dialects: Monograph 3
Author: Bruce Ingham ISBN: 9781138977273 Format: Paperback	$101.00
First Published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Read More >>

From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of the Generations

From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of the Generations
Author: Allan Metcalf (Professor of English, Professor of English, MacMurray College) ISBN: 9780199927128 Format: Hardback	$41.95
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Studies in Linguistic Geography (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics): The Dialects of English in Britain and Ireland

Studies in Linguistic Geography (RLE Linguistics D:...
Author: John M. Kirk , Stewart Sanderson ISBN: 9781138983199 Format: Paperback	$96.99
The publication in the past ten years of linguistic atlases of England and Scotland has not only advanced our knowledge... Read More >>

Faith and Philosophical Enquiry

Faith and Philosophical Enquiry
Author: D.Z. Phillips ISBN: 9781138969513 Format: Paperback	$101.00
First Published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Read More >>

Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature: From Alexis to the Digital Age

Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature:...
Author: Jeannine Murray-Román ISBN: 9780813938486 Format: Paperback	$64.90
Focusing on the literary representation of performance practices in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean... Read More >>

Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature: From Alexis to the Digital Age

Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature:...
Author: Jeannine Murray-Román ISBN: 9780813938479 Format: Hardback	$138.60
Focusing on the literary representation of performance practices in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean... Read More >>

Scoor-oot: A Dictionary of Scots Words and Phrases in Current Use

Scoor-oot: A Dictionary of Scots Words and Phrases in...
Author: James A.C. Stevenson (Late of The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue) , Iseabail Macleod (Scottish Language Dictionaries, UK) ISBN: 9781474247191 Format: Hardback	$280.00
This dictionary covers a multitude of Scots words and expressions, some of which have entered into English worldwide,... Read More >>

American English: Dialects and Variation

American English: Dialects and Variation
Author: Walt Wolfram (North Carolina State University, USA) , Natalie Schilling (Georgetown University, USA) ISBN: 9781118390221 Format: Paperback	$90.95
The new edition of this classic text chronicles recent breakthrough developments in the field of American English,... Read More >>

The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology: History, theory, practice

The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology: History,...
Author: Stefan Dollinger (University of Gothenburg & University of British Columbia) ISBN: 9789027258311 Format: Hardback	$227.70
This book is the first monograph-length account on written questionnaires in more than 60 years. It reconnects -... Read More >>

Origins of Yiddish Dialects

Origins of Yiddish Dialects
Author: Alexander Beider (Independent scholar, Independent scholar) ISBN: 9780198739319 Format: Hardback	$394.95
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Trends in Phonetics and Phonology: Studies from German-speaking Europe

Trends in Phonetics and Phonology: Studies from German-speaking...
Author: Adrian Leemann , Marie-José Kolly ISBN: 9783034316538 Format: Hardback	$160.43
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English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles, Fifth Edition

English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social...
Author: Arthur Hughes (formerly of Reading University, UK) , Peter Trudgill (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) ISBN: 9781138128309 Format: Hardback	$389.00
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Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs

Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
Author: Jennifer Speake ISBN: 9780198734901 Format: Paperback	$29.95
This unique and thoroughly revised collection contains over 1,100 of the most widely used proverbs in English, drawing... Read More >>

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