Dialect, slang & jargon books

Deals with the inter-relationship between different concepts of linguistic space from a dialectological, sociolinguistic...  Read More >>

This comprehensive bibliography provides more than 1600 references to publications from the past half century on...  Read More >>

In Slang: The People's Poetry, Michael Adams covers this perennially interesting subject in a serious but highly...  Read More >>

The Bavarian Dictionary employs the principles of modern lexicography and draws on a vastly larger body of source...  Read More >>

Following an introduction to language and linguistics as such, this book provides detailed descriptions of the different...  Read More >>

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Offers a humble response to the clarion call by Mwalimu Carter G. Woodson, Mwalimu Frantz Fanon, and Mwalimu Malcolm...  Read More >>

Shows the study of dialect variation has indeed the potential, perhaps even the duty, to play a central role in...  Read More >>

With introductory chapters that present a general overview and a detailed discussion of the linguistic typology...  Read More >>

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication - Leonardo da VinciBad English, as George Orwell argued so eloquently...  Read More >>

Contributes to a theory of reiteration in natural languages, with a special focus on creoles. Alongside five chapters...  Read More >>

The Bavarian Dictionary employs the principles of modern lexicography and draws on a vastly larger body of source...  Read More >>

Beginning with a discussion of real-life challenges relating to world Englishes that are faced by language professionals...  Read More >>

Beginning with a discussion of real-life challenges relating to world Englishes that are faced by language professionals...  Read More >>

"""Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."" - Leonardo da Vinci. Bad English, as George Orwell argued so eloquently...  Read More >>

Suitable for those who are looking for fresh perspectives on the process of creolization of language, this book...  Read More >>

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No body speaks in strictly formal address anymore. Certainly not in Italy, where the common expressioned shouted...  Read More >>

In this first book of its kind, Dany Adone demonstrates how children acquire Creoles as their first language and...  Read More >>

English Accents and Dialects provides a unique introductory guide to the regional and social varieties of English...  Read More >>

Roger Lass offers a critical survey of the foundations of the art of historical linguistics, and its interaction...  Read More >>

This authoritative introduction to African American English (AAE) is the first textbook to look at the grammar as...  Read More >>

'Language contact' occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence each other....  Read More >>

When first published in 1980, Dialectology broke new ground by integrating urban dialectology (sociolinguistics),...  Read More >>

White Kids investigates how white teenagers use language to display identities based on race and youth culture....  Read More >>