Dialect, slang & jargon books

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Survey Eng Dialects Vol3 Prt2

Survey Eng Dialects Vol3 Prt2
Author: Michael V. Barry ISBN: 9780415185165 Format: Hardback	$630.00
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Read More >>

Survey Eng Dialects Vol3 Prt1

Survey Eng Dialects Vol3 Prt1
Author: Michael V. Barry ISBN: 9780415185158 Format: Hardback	$525.00
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Read More >>

Survey Eng Dialects Vol2 Prt2

Survey Eng Dialects Vol2 Prt2
Author: Michael V. Barry ISBN: 9780415185134 Format: Hardback	$546.00
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Read More >>

Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English

Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and...
Author: Geoffrey Hughes ISBN: 9780140267075 Format: Paperback	$32.99
Tracing the history of swearing from ancient Anglo-Saxon traditions and those of the Middle Ages, through Shakespeare,... Read More >>

The Greek Dialects

The Greek Dialects
Author: Carl D. Buck ISBN: 9781853995569 Format: Paperback	$98.30
This is a revised edition of ""The Greek Dialects"" published by Chicago University Press in 1955. It was comparatively... Read More >>

African-American English: Structure, History and Use

African-American English: Structure, History and Use...
Author: Guy Bailey , John Baugh ISBN: 9780415117333 Format: Paperback	$105.00
The main focus of the book is the linguistic features of AfricanAmerican English, in particular the grammar, phonology... Read More >>

African-American English: Structure, History and Use

African-American English: Structure, History and Use...
Author: Guy Bailey , John Baugh ISBN: 9780415117326 Format: Hardback	$305.00
The main focus of the book is the linguistic features of AfricanAmerican English, in particular the grammar, phonology... Read More >>

Indian English: Texts and Interpretation

Indian English: Texts and Interpretation
Author: Raja Ram Mehrotra (Banaras Hindu University) , Manfred Gorlach ISBN: 9789027247162 Format: Hardback	$214.76
This volume presents Indian English texts drawn from diverse sources and a variety of registers and domains. It... Read More >>

The Survey of English Dialects

The Survey of English Dialects
Author: Michael V. Barry , Wilfrid J. Halliday ISBN: 9780415181785 Format: Mixed media product	$945.00
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Speaking and Social Identity: English in the Lives of Urban Africans

Speaking and Social Identity: English in the Lives of...
Author: Lawrence B. Breitborde ISBN: 9783110147964 Format: Hardback	$554.40
No detailed description available for ""Speaking and Social Identity"". Read More >>

Dialectical Approaches to Studying Personal Relationships

Dialectical Approaches to Studying Personal Relationships...
Author: Barbara M. Montgomery , Leslie A. Baxter ISBN: 9780805821130 Format: Paperback	$90.99
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Everyday English 1500-1700: A Reader

Everyday English 1500-1700: A Reader
Author: Bridget Cusack ISBN: 9780748607761 Format: Paperback	$79.99
This collection of text extracts provides an invaluable resource for working directly with non-literary informal... Read More >>

Dialectical Approaches to Studying Personal Relationships

Dialectical Approaches to Studying Personal Relationships...
Author: Barbara M. Montgomery , Leslie A. Baxter ISBN: 9780805821123 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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English in Australia and New Zealand: An Introduction to Its History, Structure and Use

English in Australia and New Zealand: An Introduction...
Author: Kate Burridge (Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, La Trobe University) , Jean Mulder (Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne) ISBN: 9780195538137 Format: Paperback	$87.95
This introductory level linguistics text focuses on English in Australia and New Zealand and the emphasis is on... Read More >>

Language, Literature, and the Negotiation of Identity: Foreign Worker German in the Federal Republic of Germany

Language, Literature, and the Negotiation of Identity:...
Author: Barbara A. Fennell ISBN: 9780807881194 Format: Hardback	$118.80
This study examines the way in which the identity of foreign workers and foreign writers in Germany is negotiated... Read More >>

A dictionary of South African English: Home language

A dictionary of South African English: Home language...
Author: Jean Branford , William Branford ISBN: 9780195705959 Format: Book	$85.00
This edition of the dictionary brings it up to date. New quotations from previously banned sources are now included,... Read More >>

Studies on Tai Dialects: Glossaries, Texts, and Translations

Studies on Tai Dialects: Glossaries, Texts, and Translations...
Author: Thomas John Hudak ISBN: 9780891480778 Format: Hardback	$297.56
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The Typology and Dialectology of Romani

The Typology and Dialectology of Romani
Author: Yaron Matras (University of Manchester) , Peter Bakker (Aarhus Universitet) ISBN: 9789027236616 Format: Hardback	$238.05
This volume reflects developments in the typology and dialectology of Romani, in particular the four main groups:... Read More >>

Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading

Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading
Author: Paul Saenger ISBN: 9780804726535 Format: Hardback	$192.00
Modern reading is a silent and solitary activity. Ancient reading was usually oral, either aloud, in groups, or... Read More >>

Focus on Ireland

Focus on Ireland
Author: Jeffrey L. Kallen (Trinity College Dublin) , Jeffrey L. Kallen ISBN: 9789027248794 Format: Hardback	$238.05
"This volume in the series ""Varieties of English around the World"" focuses on varities of English in Ireland.... Read More >>

Western Words: A Dictionary of the Old West

Western Words: A Dictionary of the Old West
Author: Ramon Adams ISBN: 9780781805902 Format: Paperback	$31.55
Western Words has 5,000 words of cowboy language as vibrant now as it was in the old American frontier. ""Within... Read More >>

Street French Slang Dictionary and Thesaurus

Street French Slang Dictionary and Thesaurus
Author: David Burke ISBN: 9780471168065 Format: Paperback	$47.39
Offers English equivalents and usage tips for over one thousand French terms, including slang words, idioms, proverbs,... Read More >>

Street Spanish 1: The Best of Spanish Slang

Street Spanish 1: The Best of Spanish Slang
Author: David Burke ISBN: 9780471179702 Format: Paperback	$44.75
Learn the fundamentals of Spanish slang in 10 easy lessons. This book provides you with the conversational Spanish... Read More >>

The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles: Including selected papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics

The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles: Including...
Author: Arthur K. Spears (The City College & The Graduate Center, The City University of New York) , Donald Winford (Ohio State University) ISBN: 9789027252418 Format: Hardback	$282.04
This collection of papers on the pidgin and creole languages covers such topics as: typology of contact languages;... Read More >>

The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language

The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language
Author: Charles Jones (Forbes Professor of English Language, University of Edinburgh) ISBN: 9780748607549 Format: Hardback	$276.00
This is the first full scale attempt to record the diachronic development of this important English language variety... Read More >>

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