Dialect, slang & jargon books

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It's Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Clichés

It's Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use and Abuse...
Author: Orin Hargraves (Lexicographer and language researcher, Lexicographer and language researcher) ISBN: 9780199315734 Format: Hardback	$49.95
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Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community

Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community...
Author: Amy D. Clark , Nancy M. Hayward ISBN: 9780813140964 Format: Hardback	$158.40
With contributions from well-known authors such as George Ella Lyon and Silas House, this balanced collection is... Read More >>

Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community

Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community...
Author: Amy D. Clark , Nancy M. Hayward ISBN: 9780813147437 Format: Paperback	$79.20
With contributions from well-known authors such as George Ella Lyon and Silas House, this balanced collection is... Read More >>

Archaeology and Language IV: Language Change and Cultural Transformation

Archaeology and Language IV: Language Change and Cultural...
Author: Roger Blench , Matthew Spriggs ISBN: 9781138006829 Format: Paperback	$69.99
This volume provides a challenging variety of case-studies which demonstrate how global patterns of language distribution... Read More >>

English in Kenya or Kenyan English?

English in Kenya or Kenyan English?
Author: Natalia Budohoska ISBN: 9783631643990 Format: Hardback	$110.36
Is Kenyan English a new postcolonial variety of English developing in a multilingual environment of permanent language... Read More >>

Vietnam War Slang: A Dictionary on Historical Principles

Vietnam War Slang: A Dictionary on Historical Principles...
Author: Tom Dalzell ISBN: 9780415839402 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Vietnam War Slang: A Dictionary on Historical Principles

Vietnam War Slang: A Dictionary on Historical Principles...
Author: Tom Dalzell ISBN: 9780415839419 Format: Paperback	$79.99
This dictionary presents the definitive record of the lexicon of Americans who fought in the Vietnam war. Read More >>

Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora

Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in...
Author: Bénédicte Boisseron , Baenaedicte Boisseron ISBN: 9780813049793 Format: Hardback	$151.80
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Writing from the Margins of Europe: The Application of Postcolonial Theories to Selected Works by William Butler Yeats, John Millington Synge and James Joyce

Writing from the Margins of Europe: The Application...
Author: Rachael Sumner ISBN: 9783631650509 Format: Hardback	$157.06
Writing from the Margins of Europe assesses the potential for postcolonial analysis of works by W. B. Yeats, J.... Read More >>

Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities

Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing...
Author: Robert McColl Millar (Reader in Linguistics, University of Aberdeen) , William Barras (Lecturer in Language and Linguistics, University of Aberdeen) ISBN: 9780748691777 Format: Hardback	$200.00
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Diachrony and Dialects: Grammatical Change in the Dialects of Italy

Diachrony and Dialects: Grammatical Change in the Dialects...
Author: Paola Benincà (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Padua) , Adam Ledgeway (Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics, Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics, University of Cambridge) ISBN: 9780198701781 Format: Hardback	$267.95
This book examines morphosyntactic variation in the Romance varieties spoken in Italy from both a regional and historical... Read More >>

Ditransitives in British English Dialects

Ditransitives in British English Dialects
Author: Johanna Gerwin ISBN: 9783110352146 Format: Hardback	$403.89
What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this `dative... Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Rhyming Slangs

The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Rhyming Slangs
Author: Terry Victor , Antonio Lillo ISBN: 9781623562892 Format: Hardback	$303.60
The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Rhyming Slangs provides a comprehensive and authoritative record of the variant rhyming... Read More >>

Folk Stories and Personal Narratives in Palestinian Spoken Arabic: A Cultural and Linguistic Study

Folk Stories and Personal Narratives in Palestinian...
Author: N. Sirhan ISBN: 9781137325754 Format: Hardback	$145.17
By analysing the folk stories and personal narratives of a cross-section of Palestinians, Sirhan offers a detailed... Read More >>

The English Language in Canada: Status, History and Comparative Analysis

The English Language in Canada: Status, History and...
Author: Charles Boberg (Associate Professor of Linguistics, McGill University, Montréal) ISBN: 9781107688148 Format: Paperback	$82.80
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Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings

Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language...
Author: Paula Blank ISBN: 9780415756846 Format: Paperback	$118.00
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The Dialects of Italy

The Dialects of Italy
Author: Martin Maiden , Martin Maiden ISBN: 9781138006782 Format: Paperback	$118.00
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Concise Dictionary of Physics: How to Use Idioms to Write English Attractively

Concise Dictionary of Physics: How to Use Idioms to...
Author: Editorial board, V&S Publishers ISBN: 9789350571453 Format: Paperback	$77.63
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Language!: Five Hundred Years of the Vulgar Tongue

Language!: Five Hundred Years of the Vulgar Tongue
Author: Jonathon Green ISBN: 9781848878983 Format: Hardback	$64.69
The entertaining, shocking and surprising story of slang, as told by Britain's foremost slang lexicographer. Read More >>

Teenage Talk: From General Characteristics to the Use of Pragmatic Markers in a Contrastive Perspective

Teenage Talk: From General Characteristics to the Use...
Author: A. Stenström ISBN: 9781137430373 Format: Hardback	$116.41
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Dialect in Film and Literature

Dialect in Film and Literature
Author: Jane Hodson (University of Sheffield, Sheffield) ISBN: 9781403937087 Format: Paperback	$79.99
This text draws on ideas and approaches from linguistics in order to investigate the ways in which different dialects... Read More >>

Dialect in Film and Literature

Dialect in Film and Literature
Author: Jane Hodson (University of Sheffield, Sheffield) , Hodson ISBN: 9781403937070 Format: Hardback	$260.00
This text draws on ideas and approaches from linguistics in order to investigate the ways in which different dialects... Read More >>

Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific: Maritime Polynesian Pidgin before Pidgin English

Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific: Maritime...
Author: Emanuel J. Drechsel (University of Hawaii, Manoa) ISBN: 9781107015104 Format: Hardback	$343.20
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Languages and Dialects in the U.S.: Focus on Diversity and Linguistics

Languages and Dialects in the U.S.: Focus on Diversity...
Author: Marianna Di Paolo (University of Utah, USA) , Arthur K. Spears (The City College of New York, CUNY, USA) ISBN: 9780415728577 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics
Author: P. H. Matthews (Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, St. John's College, Cambridge University) ISBN: 9780199675128 Format: Paperback	$31.95
This authoritative dictionary provides coverage across the field of linguistics, both the theoretical and the practical.... Read More >>

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