Dialect, slang & jargon books

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Early English Pronunciation: Part III & IV

Early English Pronunciation: Part III & IV
Author: A.J. Ellis ISBN: 9780859919593 Format: Hardback	$184.80
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The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages

The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of...
Author: John McWhorter ISBN: 9780520219991 Format: Hardback	$104.95
John McWhorter challenges a paradigm among linguists in this exploration of the origins of plantation creole. Using... Read More >>

A Plethora of Platitudes: A Collection of Cliches and an Assortment of Adages

A Plethora of Platitudes: A Collection of Cliches and...
Author: Jay J Smith ISBN: 9780595010202 Format: Paperback	$26.27
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Sprache in der Klasse

Sprache in der Klasse
Author: Raphael Berthele ISBN: 9783484312128 Format: Hardback	$406.56
In dieser Arbeit wird eine Primarschulklasse in einer zweisprachigen Schweizer Stadt untersucht. Die Schulklasse... Read More >>

The Big Con

The Big Con
Author: David Maurer ISBN: 9780099409991 Format: Paperback	$39.99
'Of all the gifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat, ' wrote David Maurer, a proposition he definitively proved... Read More >>

A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral: Bridging the Linguistic Gap between the Eastern and Western Arab World

A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai...
Author: Rudolf Erik de Jong ISBN: 9789004118683 Format: Leather / fine binding	$939.84
This study offers a thorough analysis of the bedouin dialects of the northern Sinai littoral. Proposing 82 criteria... Read More >>

Mind The Gap: Ellipsis and Stylistic Variation in Spoken and Written English

Mind The Gap: Ellipsis and Stylistic Variation in Spoken...
Author: Peter Wilson ISBN: 9780582356795 Format: Paperback	$120.00
Peter Wilson draws on a variety of examples of spoken and written English, and both literary and non-literary to... Read More >>

Dread Talk: The Language of the Rastafari

Dread Talk: The Language of the Rastafari
Author: Velma Pollard ISBN: 9780773520301 Format: Paperback	$50.03
Describes the language of Rastafari, tracing its development as an expansion of Jamaican Creole while showing how... Read More >>

Grammar Broonie

Grammar Broonie
Author: Susan Rennie , Barbara Robertson ISBN: 9781902930206 Format: Paperback	$27.99
Intended mainly for use at upper primary and lower secondary level, the Grammar Broonie aims to show that Scots... Read More >>

The Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics

The Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics...
Author: R. L. Trask (Professor of Linguistics, University of Sussex) ISBN: 9780748610013 Format: Paperback	$79.99
With nearly 2400 entries, this dictionary covers every aspect of the subject, from the most venerable work to the... Read More >>

The Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics

The Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics...
Author: R. L. Trask (Professor of Linguistics, University of Sussex) ISBN: 9780748610037 Format: Hardback	$403.00
With nearly 2400 entries, this dictionary covers every aspect of the subject, from the most venerable work to the... Read More >>

Slang of Sin

Slang of Sin
Author: Thomas Henry Dalzell , Istvan Banyai ISBN: 9780877796275 Format: Paperback	$29.95
Lists and defines the terminology used in association with such vices as drinking, sex, drugs, and gambling. Read More >>

The Higher Functional Field: Evidence from Northern Italian Dialects

The Higher Functional Field: Evidence from Northern...
Author: Celia Poletto (Researcher, Researcher, CNR Consiglio Nazionale deffe Richerche, National Research Foundation) ISBN: 9780195133578 Format: Paperback	$256.00
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The Higher Functional Field: Evidence from Northern Italian Dialects

The Higher Functional Field: Evidence from Northern...
Author: Celia Poletto (Researcher, Researcher, CNR Consiglio Nazionale deffe Richerche, National Research Foundation) ISBN: 9780195133561 Format: Hardback	$215.95
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Time-Bound Words: Semantic and Social Economies from Chaucer's England to Shakespeare's

Time-Bound Words: Semantic and Social Economies from...
Author: P. Knapp ISBN: 9780333753798 Format: Hardback	$448.77
Time-Bound Words argues that changes in English society and the English language are woven together, often in surprising... Read More >>

On Early Eng Pronunciation V

On Early Eng Pronunciation V
Author: A.J. Ellis ISBN: 9780859919784 Format: Hardback	$211.20
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Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 1: General issues and non-Germanic Languages.. Selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995

Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 1: General issues...
Author: John Charles Smith (St. Catherine's College, Oxford) , Delia Bentley (University of Manchester) ISBN: 9789027236661 Format: Hardback	$282.04
This volume contains conference papers on general issues of language change, as well as specific studies of non-Germanic... Read More >>

On Early Eng Pronunciation Part I & II

On Early Eng Pronunciation Part I & II
Author: A.J. Ellis ISBN: 9780859919494 Format: Hardback	$211.20
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Welsh Dialect Survey

Welsh Dialect Survey
Author: Alan R. Thomas , Alan Thomas ISBN: 9780708316177 Format: Hardback	$99.99
This volume provides a survey of the principal features of segmental phonology in the dialects of Welsh, and includes... Read More >>

Atlas of Chinese Tongue Diagnosis

Atlas of Chinese Tongue Diagnosis
Author: Barbara Kirschbaum , D. Hertzer ISBN: 9780939616336 Format: Hardback	$224.40
With over 200 color photographs of tongues seen in a Western clinic, this new second edition of the Atlas of Chinese... Read More >>

NTC's Super-Mini British Slang Dictionary

NTC's Super-Mini British Slang Dictionary
Author: Richard Spears , Ewart James ISBN: 9780844201115 Format: Paperback	$20.99
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Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America

Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America...
Author: John H. McWhorter ISBN: 9780325001982 Format: Paperback	$42.90
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Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading

Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading
Author: Paul Saenger ISBN: 9780804740166 Format: Paperback	$65.95
Modern reading is a silent and solitary activity. Ancient reading was usually oral, either aloud, in groups, or... Read More >>

Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English

Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
Author: John Russell Rickford , Russell John Rickford ISBN: 9780471323563 Format: Hardback	$85.80
In Praise of spoken soul the story of black english ""Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap... a delightfully... Read More >>

Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology: The Classification of Miin and Hakka

Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology: The Classification...
Author: David Prager Branner ISBN: 9783110158311 Format: Hardback	$491.04
This book discusses the methodology of systematic Chinese Dialect classification, with particular attention to the... Read More >>

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