Dialect, slang & jargon books

chronicles the pervasive and indiscriminate use of computer terminology, especially as it is applied to situations...  Read More >>

A study of the indigenized Singaporean variety of English, based on recordings of spontaneous speech of ethnically...  Read More >>

The contributors to this volume cover the international range of scholarship in the field of Historical Linguistics,...  Read More >>

This reference work offers clarification on a range of contentious issues and new angles on debates regarding the...  Read More >>

Why do people speak the way they do? And why does the way they speak make so much difference? This collection of...  Read More >>

A pioneering study of how native Americans speak English, and an argument that the variations between the different...  Read More >>

A comprehensive, clearly written introduction to historical linguistic theory and methods. Thoroughly revised,...  Read More >>

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This book offers scholarly analysis, recent discoveries, new methodologies, and reinterpretations with regard to...  Read More >>

An up-to-date record of modern slang, containing over 5,000 of the most important slang terms from the English-speaking...  Read More >>

The six levels of the Modern American English series offer a step-by-step progression from repletion to practice...  Read More >>

The six levels of the Modern American English series offer a step-by-step progression from repletion to practice...  Read More >>

No detailed description available for ""Stress and Non-Stress Accent"".  Read More >>

No detailed description available for ""Old French and Comparative Gallo-Romance Syntax"".  Read More >>

"This reference contains all 10,000 words found in ""The Australian National Dictionary"", published in 1988. It...  Read More >>

This book examines some of the changes that are taking place in Tok Pisin, an English-based pidgin, as it becomes...  Read More >>

Explores the pragmatics of word play, using frameworks normally adopted in descriptive linguistics. Examines the...  Read More >>

The study centres on the lexical investigation of the 'alto-vicentino' dialect, that is traditionally subsumed under...  Read More >>

A compendium of Japanese slang as used on the streets of Japan today. Besides acting as a tool to help non-native...  Read More >>

Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study...  Read More >>

Offering a step-by-step progression from repetition through practice to use, this is part of a course which takes...  Read More >>

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Reflecting the liveliness of English as it is spoken on America's main streets and country roads, this second volume...  Read More >>

The results of the dialect surveys of Great Britain have been published in the form of hundreds of single and collected...  Read More >>

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