Dialect, slang & jargon books

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Lectures Against Sociolinguistics

Lectures Against Sociolinguistics
Author: Rajendra Singh
ISBN: 9780820430973
Format: Paperback 		$110.75

Lectures Against Sociolinguistics exposes the very serious limitations of sociolinguistics as we know it. Its twelve...  Read More >>

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Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang

Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang...
Author: RANDOM HOUSE ,  J. E. Lighter
ISBN: 9780679434641
Format: Hardback 		$211.07

A collection of American slang which includes both present-day and historical terms.  Read More >>

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Language Contact across the North Atlantic: Proceedings of the Working Groups held at the University College, Galway (Ireland), 1992 and the University of Göteborg (Sweden), 1993

Language Contact across the North Atlantic: Proceedings...
Author: P. Sture Ureland ,  Iain Clarkson
ISBN: 9783484303591
Format: Hardback 		$358.64

The articles on the post-Columbian period are wide-ranging and cover, in the Scandinavian context, the Scandinavian...  Read More >>

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Arabian Diversions: Studies on the Dialects of Arabia

Arabian Diversions: Studies on the Dialects of Arabia...
Author: Bruce Ingham
ISBN: 9780863721977
Format: Hardback 		$184.67

This work consists of articles written since 1969 on the Arabic dialects and oral literature of the Arabian peninsula...  Read More >>

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An Atlas of English Dialects

An Atlas of English Dialects
Author: Clive Upton ,  J. D. A. Widdowson
ISBN: 9780198692744
Format: Paperback 		$28.95

A guide to the diversity of English regional speech including 90 maps demonstrating the distribution of words and...  Read More >>

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Dictionary of American Regional English

Dictionary of American Regional English
Author: Frederic G. Cassidy ,  Joan Houston Hall
ISBN: 9780674205192
Format: Hardback 		$226.95

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Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English

Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English
Author: T.K. Pratt
ISBN: 9780802079046
Format: Paperback 		$64.99

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Dialect Levelling in Limburg: Structural and sociolinguistic aspects

Dialect Levelling in Limburg: Structural and sociolinguistic...
Author: Frans Hinskens
ISBN: 9783484303560
Format: Hardback 		$291.63

This volume presents a study of the phenomenon of dialect levelling, the process of the reduction of structural...  Read More >>

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Prison Patter: A Dictionary of Prison Words and Slang

Prison Patter: A Dictionary of Prison Words and Slang...
Author: Angela Devlin ,  Maryanne
ISBN: 9781872870410
Format: Paperback 		$79.07

Contains some 2,500 entries together with explanations and background to the prison slang. This guide is intended...  Read More >>

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Slang American Style

Slang American Style
Author: Richard Spears
ISBN: 9780844209074
Format: Paperback 		$36.83

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Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings

Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language...
Author: Paula Blank
ISBN: 9780415137799
Format: Hardback 		$305.00

The English language in the Renaissance was in many ways a collection of competing Englishes. Blank investigates...  Read More >>

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Reconstructing Prehistorical Dialects: Initial Vowels in Slavic and Baltic

Reconstructing Prehistorical Dialects: Initial Vowels...
Author: Henning Andersen
ISBN: 9783110147056
Format: Hardback 		$591.36

This study aims to shed light on the Slavic dialects that existed before the Slavic migrations. The author pays...  Read More >>

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Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship: An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics

Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship:...
Author: Hans H. Hock ,  Brian D. Joseph
ISBN: 9783110147858
Format: Hardback 		$491.83

Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why...  Read More >>

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Communicating Meaning: The Evolution and Development of Language

Communicating Meaning: The Evolution and Development...
Author: Boris M. Velichkovsky ,  Duane M. Rumbaugh
ISBN: 9780805821185
Format: Hardback 		$273.00

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

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The Columbia Guide to Standard American English

The Columbia Guide to Standard American English
Author: Kenneth Wilson
ISBN: 9780231069892
Format: Paperback 		$56.95

A guide to effective writing suitable for the Americans. It answers questions of meaning, grammar, pronunciation,...  Read More >>

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Street French: The Best of French Idioms

Street French: The Best of French Idioms
Author: David Burke
ISBN: 9780471138990
Format: Paperback 		$52.67

Stop hitting your biscuit! What? If you heard this expression (arrete de te frapper le biscuit!) from a French...  Read More >>

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Language History, Language Change and Language Relationship: Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics

Language History, Language Change and Language Relationship:...
Author: Hans H. Hock ,  Brian D. Joseph
ISBN: 9783110147841
Format: Paperback 		$92.27

Why does language change? Why can we understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Can the language...  Read More >>

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Comparing English Worldwide: The International Corpus of English

Comparing English Worldwide: The International Corpus...
Author: Sidney Greenbaum (late Director, Survey of English Usage, late Director, Survey of English Usage, University College, London)
ISBN: 9780198235828
Format: Hardback 		$329.95

The International Corpus of English is an assembly of parallel collections of samples of spoken and written English...  Read More >>

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Lexical Change and Variation in the Southeastern United States, 1930-90

Lexical Change and Variation in the Southeastern United...
Author: Ellen Johnson
ISBN: 9780817307943
Format: Paperback 		$101.64

This work analyses words used in the southeastern United States and how they have changed during the 20th century....  Read More >>

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Only in America

Only in America
Author: Angela Buckingham ,  Chris Burdett
ISBN: 9780194588720
Format: Paperback 		$26.95

Only in America comprises eight self-contained humorous short stories shot on location in the USA. The aim is to...  Read More >>

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Creole-English/English-Creole (Caribbean) Concise Dictionary

Creole-English/English-Creole (Caribbean) Concise Dictionary...
Author: Stephanie Ovide
ISBN: 9780781804554
Format: Paperback 		$36.83

This dictionary contains commonsense phonetic pronunciations for Creole and English, modern up-to-date entries,...  Read More >>

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Language Contact and Change: Spanish in Los Angeles

Language Contact and Change: Spanish in Los Angeles...
Author: Silva-Corvalán
ISBN: 9780198236443
Format: Paperback 		$89.95

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A Concise Ulster Dictionary

A Concise Ulster Dictionary
Author: Caroline Macafee
ISBN: 9780198600596
Format: Paperback 		$37.95

A Concise Ulster Dictionary presents a guide to the language of the province of Ulster. 15,000 dialect words, including...  Read More >>

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The Metamorphosis of English: Versions of Other Languages

The Metamorphosis of English: Versions of Other Languages...
Author: Richard M. Swiderski
ISBN: 9780897894685
Format: Hardback 		$255.95

Swiderski extends our understanding of the ""predatory"" aspects of the language as he shows how English acquires...  Read More >>

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A Concise Ulster Dictionary

A Concise Ulster Dictionary
Author: Caroline Macafee
ISBN: 9780198631323
Format: Hardback 		$57.50

A Concise Ulster Dictionary presents a guide to the language of the province of Ulster. 15,000 dialect words, including...  Read More >>

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