Dialect, slang & jargon books

This is a survey of English both as a pre-eminent world language and as an increasingly divergent language. It...  Read More >>

Polari is a secret form of language mainly used by homosexual men, in London and other cities during the 20th century....  Read More >>

This text presents a reference point for today's discussions about ever-present language varieties, Ebonics, and...  Read More >>

Based on a 500,000 word corpus of early sources collected from ex-slave narratives, ex-slave recordings, and interviews...  Read More >>

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This study examines the effect of race-consciousness upon the pronunciation of American English and upon the ideology...  Read More >>

This study examines the effect of race-consciousness upon the pronunciation of American English and upon the ideology...  Read More >>

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"This collection of papers devoted to forms and functions of English around the world complements the three earlier...  Read More >>

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

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As Jamaica expands its reach into the world and the interest into its culture and history grows, more and more people...  Read More >>

As Jamaica expands its reach into the world and the interest in its culture and history grows, more and more people...  Read More >>

Domain-specific discourse in English forms a continuum across the academic, professional and technical genres of...  Read More >>

This text presents an easy-to-use student's reference guide to the most common colloquialisms in the Japanese language....  Read More >>

Present-day Dialectology does not treat dialectology as an isolated discipline. In addition, it explores the link...  Read More >>

A collection of essays by one of the premier historians of American English.  Read More >>

Based on the British National Corpus, this book investigates a range of morphosyntactic features of negation that...  Read More >>

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Drawing on a dual expertise of rare intensity, Mirco Ghini's book is a major contribution to both Romance dialectology...  Read More >>

This book is the first to present a comprehensive linguistic study of Jersey Norman French. Drawing on a corpus...  Read More >>

This volume presents the results of a research team of the University of Bergamo, whose aim was the analysis of...  Read More >>

* Investigates the cultural and social factors that make American vocabulary unique * Offers a systematic treatment...  Read More >>