Dialect, slang & jargon books

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The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional...
Author: Tom Dalzell , Terry Victor ISBN: 9780415212595 Format: Hardback	$137.15
Presents the slang terms from ""The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English"". With over 60,000... Read More >>

The Unword Dictionary: 1,000 Words For Things You Didn't Think Had Words!

The Unword Dictionary: 1,000 Words For Things You Didn't...
Author: Steve Kiehl ISBN: 9781933338194 Format: Paperback	$34.19
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Oral and Written Narratives and Cultural Identity: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Oral and Written Narratives and Cultural Identity: Interdisciplinary...
Author: Francisco Cota Fagundes , Irene Maria Blayer ISBN: 9780820488615 Format: Hardback	$347.56
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It's Not Rocket Science: And other irritating modern cliches

It's Not Rocket Science: And other irritating modern...
Author: Clive Whichelow , Hugh Murray ISBN: 9780749951597 Format: Hardback	$39.47
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How Not to Say What You Mean: A Dictionary of Euphemisms

How Not to Say What You Mean: A Dictionary of Euphemisms...
Author: R.W. Holder ISBN: 9780199208395 Format: Hardback	$52.67
The popular and lively guide to the language of evasion, hypocrisy, prudery, and deceit. Organized in A-Z format,... Read More >>

McGraw-Hill's Super-Mini American Slang Dictionary

McGraw-Hill's Super-Mini American Slang Dictionary
Author: Richard Spears ISBN: 9780071492287 Format: Paperback	$18.35
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Singapore English

Singapore English
Author: David Deterding (Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, University of Brunei, Darussalem) , Joan Beal ISBN: 9780748625451 Format: Paperback	$67.99
This book provides an overview of Singapore English in straightforward, non-technical language. All the findings... Read More >>

Singapore English

Singapore English
Author: David Deterding (Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, University of Brunei, Darussalem) , Joan Beal ISBN: 9780748625444 Format: Hardback	$200.00
This book provides an overview of Singapore English in straightforward, non-technical language. All the findings... Read More >>

Between Natives and Foreigners: Selected Writings of Karl/Charles Follen (1796-1840)

Between Natives and Foreigners: Selected Writings of...
Author: Frank Mehring , Frank Mehring ISBN: 9780820497327 Format: Hardback	$410.12
Karl/Charles Follen has not only been described as a dangerous revolutionary, but he has also been praised as the... Read More >>

Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Volume 2: Diachronic Databases

Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Volume 2:...
Author: J. Beal , K. Corrigan ISBN: 9781403943675 Format: Hardback	$264.00
A range of electronic corpora has become accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This coincides with improvements in... Read More >>

Dialect and Dichotomy: Literary Representations of African American Speech

Dialect and Dichotomy: Literary Representations of African...
Author: Lisa Cohen Minnick ISBN: 9780817354237 Format: Paperback	$59.40
Dialect and Dichotomy outlines the history of dialect writing in English and its influence on linguistic variation.... Read More >>

Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Volume 1: Synchronic Databases

Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Volume 1:...
Author: J. Beal , K. Corrigan ISBN: 9781403943668 Format: Hardback	$264.00
A range of electronic corpora is increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This development coincided with... Read More >>

Beyond Words

Beyond Words
Author: John Humphrys ISBN: 9780340923764 Format: Paperback	$26.99
Following his bestselling Lost for Words, the ever-popular John Humphrys takes a provocative look at the hidden... Read More >>

How The Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads

How The Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of...
Author: Daniel Cassidy ISBN: 9781904859604 Format: Paperback	$50.03
Cassidy presents a history of the Irish influence on American slang in a colourful romp through the slums, the gangs... Read More >>

Pitmatic: Talk of the North East Coal Field

Pitmatic: Talk of the North East Coal Field
Author: Bill Griffiths ISBN: 9781904794257 Format: Paperback	$60.59
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The Indo-Aryan Languages

The Indo-Aryan Languages
Author: George Cardona , Dhanesh K. Jain ISBN: 9780415772945 Format: Paperback	$158.00
This work provides a synoptic treatment of the Indo-Aryan languages, a language family with a historical documentation... Read More >>

Thou and You in Early Modern English Dialogues: Trials, Depositions, and Drama Comedy

Thou and You in Early Modern English Dialogues: Trials,...
Author: Terry Walker (Uppsala University) ISBN: 9789027254016 Format: Hardback	$238.05
This book is a corpus-based study examining thou and you in three speech-related genres from 1560–1760, a crucial... Read More >>

Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory

Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory
Author: Charles Stewart ISBN: 9781598742794 Format: Paperback	$103.00
Renowned scholars give the term ""creolization"" historical and theoretical specificity by examining the very different... Read More >>

Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory

Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory
Author: Charles Stewart ISBN: 9781598742787 Format: Hardback	$347.00
Renowned scholars give the term ""creolization"" historical and theoretical specificity by examining the very different... Read More >>

Phonological Variation and Change in the Dialect of Charleston, South Carolina

Phonological Variation and Change in the Dialect of...
Author: Maciej Baranowski ISBN: 9780822366928 Format: Hardback	$52.80
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Jamaica Talk: Three Hundred Years of the English Language in Jamaica

Jamaica Talk: Three Hundred Years of the English Language...
Author: Frederic G. Cassidy ISBN: 9789766401702 Format: Paperback	$81.40
First published in 1961, Jamaica Talk is a thorough study of the English spoken in Jamaica and, although intended... Read More >>

Schälets-Scheuer

Schälets-Scheuer
Author: Tobias Streck ISBN: 9783486581843 Format: Paperback	$221.73
Das Badische Wörterbuch dokumentiert den mundartlichen Wortschatz im Gebiet des ehemaligen Großherzogtums Baden,... Read More >>

Linguistic Policies and the Survival of Regional Languages in France and Britain

Linguistic Policies and the Survival of Regional Languages...
Author: A. Judge ISBN: 9781403949837 Format: Hardback	$264.00
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Dialects in Schools and Communities

Dialects in Schools and Communities
Author: Carolyn Temple Adger (Center for Applied Linguistics, USA) , Walt Wolfram (North Carolina State University, USA) ISBN: 9780805843156 Format: Hardback	$305.00
This book describes dialect differences in American English and their impact on education and everyday life. It... Read More >>

Dialects in Schools and Communities

Dialects in Schools and Communities
Author: Carolyn Temple Adger (Center for Applied Linguistics, USA) , Walt Wolfram (North Carolina State University, USA) ISBN: 9780805843163 Format: Paperback	$94.99
This book describes dialect differences in American English and their impact on education and everyday life. It... Read More >>

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