Dialect, slang & jargon books

A revised reprint of the classic study of the communal Arabic dialects of Baghdad (Muslim, Christian, and Jewish)....  Read More >>

This book offers a systematic acoustic phonetic analysis of both language and dialect death in the region of Béarn,...  Read More >>

Las variedades del mundo hispano takes a refreshing approach to Spanish dialectology, guiding students through the...  Read More >>

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Las variedades del mundo hispano takes a refreshing approach to Spanish dialectology, guiding students through the...  Read More >>

Spanish in Chicago is the first book-length study of Spanish in Chicago, where populations originating in both Mexico...  Read More >>

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People in the Nordic states – Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland – rank as among the most proficient...  Read More >>

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Azuma Old Japanese is an areal term for the two major dialects of Eastern ('Azuma') Japan during the eighth century:...  Read More >>

This book offers the first comparative discussion of variation in selected areas of structure in the dialects of...  Read More >>

Spanish in Chicago is the first book-length study of Spanish in Chicago, where populations originating in both Mexico...  Read More >>

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Liverpool: A Memoir of Words is a work of creative non-fiction that combines the study of language in Liverpool...  Read More >>

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This is a Scots translation of Clement Moor's classic poem, ""The Night Before Christmas"", translated by Scots...  Read More >>

Sociolinguistic research on immigrant communities in Italy has widely studied the acquisition and use of Italian...  Read More >>

This Element documents the evolution of a research program that began in the early 1960s with the author's first...  Read More >>

The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences....  Read More >>

With contributions from world-renowned scholars, this book explains how both modern linguistics and individual languages...  Read More >>

Discourse markers constitute an important part of linguistic communication. This pioneering book presents a detailed...  Read More >>

Australian slang unites the true blue and the dinky-di and separates the cheeky little possums from the happy little...  Read More >>

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