Dialect, slang & jargon books

Covers more than 14,000 idiomatic forms in American English, exemplified with contextual sentences.  Read More >>

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Making Sense of Phonics: The Hows and Whys provides a wealth of practical ideas for teachers to build children's...  Read More >>

Dieser Sammelband besteht zum Teil aus den Referaten der Sprachinselsektion der 1. Internationalen Tagung der IGDD,...  Read More >>

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic...  Read More >>

Following his bestselling Lost for Words, the ever-popular John Humphrys takes a provocative look at the hidden...  Read More >>

Learn hundreds and hundreds of Japanese taunts, threats, curses and expletives that you'll never find in any dictionary...  Read More >>

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Helps to learn the lingo of American English. This dictionary offers you the definitions of more than 12,000 slang...  Read More >>

Addresses a range of issues in Caribbean linguistics. This volume interrogates the interpretations of the history...  Read More >>

Addresses a range of issues in Caribbean linguistics. This volume interrogates the interpretations of the history...  Read More >>

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The Godzone Dictionary is a concise A - Z of the words and phrases that make our New Zealand language so distinctive...  Read More >>

Presents an investigation into the evolution of language. This book exposes the elusive forces of creation at work...  Read More >>

The Godzone Dictionary is a concise A – Z of the words and phrases that make our New Zealand language so distinctive...  Read More >>

Lists approximately 5,100 Russian idiomatic words and expressions with their translations into English. This book...  Read More >>

Das Badische Wörterbuch dokumentiert den mundartlichen Wortschatz im Gebiet des ehemaligen Großherzogtums Baden,...  Read More >>

This state-of-the-art volume features fourteen contributions by internationally renowned scholars covering three...  Read More >>

Das Buch behandelt den Sprachkontakt zwischen dem österreichischen Deutsch und dem Bosnisch/Kroatisch/Serbischen...  Read More >>

This volume brings together a multiplicity of voices, both theoretical and practical, on the complex politics, challenges,...  Read More >>

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Focusing on the contemporary Scottish culture, this book is a useful reading for those who care about their country's...  Read More >>

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Geneva Smitherman presents an overview of past debates on the speech of the African Americans. Enriched by her inimitable...  Read More >>