Dialect, slang & jargon books

Now in its third edition, this book provides an up-to-date overview of all the major spoken and signed varieties...  Read More >>

From 'Howay, man!' to 'Haddaway!' become fluent in Geordie. This compact, handy book will help you to understand...  Read More >>

This pocket glossary is intended for quick and easy reference; it's a portable cockney kit.  Read More >>

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Der Sammelband präsentiert die Voraussetzungen, Mechanismen und Ergebnisse sprachlicher Variation und Vielfalt....  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history, contemporary state, and future direction of Korean dialectological...  Read More >>

The Victorians and English Dialect tells the story of the Victorians' discovery of English dialect, and of the revaluation...  Read More >>

A comprehensive and up-to-date sociodialectological study of North East Vernacular English  Read More >>

""Abackabeyont, bait-poke, drucken, fettle, guissie pigs, marra, nyen, plote, queen-cat, yem, zookers!"" If you...  Read More >>

Pitmatic brings together a wonderful regional pit language - its words, jokes, stories and songs that are fast disappearing...  Read More >>

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This collection brings together studies on vernacular manuscripts in regional Chinese dialects such as Cantonese...  Read More >>

The book focuses on language in Ireland and describes how social factors interact with pragmatic variation, thereby...  Read More >>

The book describes the sound system of Maaloula Aramaic, an under-researched and endangered Western Neo-Aramaic...  Read More >>

This book is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean. It...  Read More >>

This collection of 3,000 Herefordshire words and phrases draws on a number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century...  Read More >>

A Winning Dialect tells the story of linguistic and cultural change in rural Norway over the last two decades.  Read More >>

A Winning Dialect tells the story of linguistic and cultural change in rural Norway over the last two decades.  Read More >>

A lively and informative collection of fifty common Egyptian colloquial expressions and proverbs, this book is must...  Read More >>

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The theoretical framework for the study of minoritized languages has been constructed from different areas of knowledge,...  Read More >>

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