Dialect, slang & jargon books

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Ebonics Is Good

Ebonics Is Good
Author: Abdul Karim Bangura ISBN: 9781609279011 Format: Paperback	$105.60
Offers a humble response to the clarion call by Mwalimu Carter G. Woodson, Mwalimu Frantz Fanon, and Mwalimu Malcolm... Read More >>

Caribbean Spanish in the Metropolis: Spanish Language among Cubans, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans in the New York City Area

Caribbean Spanish in the Metropolis: Spanish Language...
Author: Edwin M. Lamboy (The City College of New York, USA) ISBN: 9780415646390 Format: Paperback	$46.99
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The Iranian Languages

The Iranian Languages
Author: Gernot Windfuhr ISBN: 9780415622356 Format: Paperback	$175.00
With introductory chapters that present a general overview and a detailed discussion of the linguistic typology... Read More >>

The Banned List: A Manifesto Against Jargon and Cliche

The Banned List: A Manifesto Against Jargon and Cliche...
Author: John Rentoul ISBN: 9781742704302 Format: Hardback	$19.99
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The Morphosyntax of Reiteration in Creole and Non-Creole Languages

The Morphosyntax of Reiteration in Creole and Non-Creole...
Author: Enoch O. Aboh (University of Amsterdam) , Norval Smith (University of Amsterdam) ISBN: 9789027252661 Format: Hardback	$227.70
Contributes to a theory of reiteration in natural languages, with a special focus on creoles. Alongside five chapters... Read More >>

Exploring World Englishes: Language in a Global Context

Exploring World Englishes: Language in a Global Context...
Author: Philip Seargeant (The Open University, UK) ISBN: 9780415572101 Format: Paperback	$98.99
Beginning with a discussion of real-life challenges relating to world Englishes that are faced by language professionals... Read More >>

Exploring World Englishes: Language in a Global Context

Exploring World Englishes: Language in a Global Context...
Author: Philip Seargeant (The Open University, UK) ISBN: 9780415572095 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Beginning with a discussion of real-life challenges relating to world Englishes that are faced by language professionals... Read More >>

The Banned List: A Manifesto Against Jargon and Cliche

The Banned List: A Manifesto Against Jargon and Cliche...
Author: John Rentoul ISBN: 9781742738383 Format: Undefined	$9.99
"""Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."" - Leonardo da Vinci. Bad English, as George Orwell argued so eloquently... Read More >>

The Amazing World of Englishes: A Practical Introduction

The Amazing World of Englishes: A Practical Introduction...
Author: Peter Siemund , Julia Davydova ISBN: 9783110266450 Format: Hardback	$92.37
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Language in the News: Mediating Sociopolitical Crises in Nigeria

Language in the News: Mediating Sociopolitical Crises...
Author: Innocent Chiluwa ISBN: 9783631633540 Format: Hardback	$86.68
This book is a discourse-pragmatic study of media language in news headlines and leads. News is viewed as discourse... Read More >>

Dirty Italian: Everyday Slang from 'What's Up?' to 'F*%# Off'

Dirty Italian: Everyday Slang from 'What's Up?' to 'F*%#...
Author: Gabrielle Euvino ISBN: 9781612430225 Format: Paperback	$26.40
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The Acquisition of Creole Languages: How Children Surpass their Input

The Acquisition of Creole Languages: How Children Surpass...
Author: Dany Adone ISBN: 9781139043366 Format: Undefined	$462.00
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: 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: 9781444121384 Format: Paperback	$105.00
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Dictionary of American Regional English

Dictionary of American Regional English
Author: Joan Houston Hall ISBN: 9780674047358 Format: Hardback	$343.20
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French Slanguage: A Fun Visual Guide to French Terms and Phrases

French Slanguage: A Fun Visual Guide to French Terms...
Author: Mike Ellis , Michael Ellis ISBN: 9781423622444 Format: Paperback	$14.99
Introduces the French language using pictures and English words to learn how to pronounce the words and phrases... Read More >>

Luath Scots Language Learner: An Introduction to Contemporary Spoken Scots

Luath Scots Language Learner: An Introduction to Contemporary...
Author: L Colin Wilson ISBN: 9781906307431 Format: Paperback	$71.15
An updated edition of the first ever comprehensive Scots language course, including 25 graded lessons, an English... Read More >>

Modals, Pronouns and Complement Clauses

Modals, Pronouns and Complement Clauses
Author: Nuria Hernández , Daniela Kolbe ISBN: 9783110240283 Format: Hardback	$274.47
This is the second volume of the multi-volume set A Contemporary Grammar of British English Dialects. The volume... Read More >>

Russian World War II Dictionary: A Russian-English Glossary of Special Terms, Expressions, and Soldiers' Slang

Russian World War II Dictionary: A Russian-English Glossary...
Author: Stuart Britton , Isaak Kobylyanskiy ISBN: 9781907677335 Format: Paperback	$92.40
The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany, known as the Eastern Front of World War II, continues... Read More >>

Issues in Scottish Vowel Quantity

Issues in Scottish Vowel Quantity
Author: Stawomir Zdziebko ISBN: 9781443834636 Format: Hardback	$179.39
This book primarily provides a detailed description and interpretation of one of the most fascinating and poorly... Read More >>

The Ohio and Erie Canal: A Glossary of Terms

The Ohio and Erie Canal: A Glossary of Terms
Author: Terry K. Woods ISBN: 9781606351062 Format: Paperback	$30.80
The people who lived and worked on and alongside the Ohio and Erie canal had a vocabulary of their own. This text... Read More >>

Gangster Speak: A Dictionary of Criminal and Sexual Slang

Gangster Speak: A Dictionary of Criminal and Sexual...
Author: James Morton ISBN: 9780753522851 Format: Paperback	$32.99
Contains over 2,500 linguistic gems: Ghosting - the practice of transferring a troublesome prisoner to another establishment... Read More >>

English Contrastive Studies: From the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century

English Contrastive Studies: From the Fifteenth to the...
Author: Jacek Fisiak , Tomasz P. Krzeszowski ISBN: 9783631620038 Format: Hardback	$102.98
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North East Dialect: A Dictionary of

North East Dialect: A Dictionary of
Author: Bill Griffiths ISBN: 9781904794400 Format: Paperback	$65.87
If you enjoy finding out about dialect words how and where and when they were used and where they came from we think... Read More >>

Pella Dutch: Portrait of a Language in an Iowa Community

Pella Dutch: Portrait of a Language in an Iowa Community...
Author: Philip E. Webber ISBN: 9781609380656 Format: Paperback	$52.67
Founded in 1847 by religious separatists, the town of Pella in central Iowa is the state's oldest Dutch American... Read More >>

Relative Constructions in European Non-Standard Varieties

Relative Constructions in European Non-Standard Varieties...
Author: Adriano Murelli ISBN: 9783110238785 Format: Hardback	$686.40
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