Dialect, slang & jargon books

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English Dialect Dictionary Online: A New Departure in English Dialectology

English Dialect Dictionary Online: A New Departure in...

Author: Manfred Markus
ISBN: 9781108814447
Format: Paperback
$56.90

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Scottish Plant Names: An A to Z

Scottish Plant Names: An A to Z

Author: Gregory Kenicer
ISBN: 9781910877449
Format: Hardback
$43.96

Covering a vast variety of flower, funghi and mosses in the language of the people of Scotland.  Read More >>

East Anglian English

East Anglian English

Author: Peter Trudgill
ISBN: 9781501521478
Format: Paperback
$34.23

This book is the first full-scale scientific study of East Anglian English. The author is a native East Anglian...  Read More >>

Personenreferenz im Dialekt: Grammatik und Pragmatik inoffizieller Personennamen in Dialekten des Deutschen

Personenreferenz im Dialekt: Grammatik und Pragmatik...

Author: Theresa Schweden
ISBN: 9783110999204
Format: Hardback
$188.67

Systems for referring to persons are more complex in most German dialects than in standard German. Using a mixed...  Read More >>

OK

OK

Author: Dr. Michelle McSweeney (Director of Data Quality and Annotation, Converseon.AI, USA)
ISBN: 9781501367182
Format: Paperback
$19.99

""OK as a word can agree, accept, inspire, and describe the world; as an object, OK and its variants (okay, ok,...  Read More >>

Code-Choice and Identity Construction on Stage

Code-Choice and Identity Construction on Stage

Author: Sirkku Aaltonen
ISBN: 9780367501402
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Code-Choice and Identity Construction on Stage challenges the general assumption that language is only one of the...  Read More >>

The Dialect of Polish Spoken in Cruz Machado, Paraná: A Portrait of a Language Apart

The Dialect of Polish Spoken in Cruz Machado, Paraná:...

Author: Konstanze Jungbluth ,  Karolina J. Zaremba
ISBN: 9783631873021
Format: Hardback
$139.73

The book focuses on a dialect of Polish spoken as a heritage language in a rural community in southern Brazil. The...  Read More >>

The Book of Feckin' Irish Sayings For When You Go On The Batter With A Shower of Savages

The Book of Feckin' Irish Sayings For When You Go On...

Author: Colin Murphy ,  Donal O'Dea
ISBN: 9781788494090
Format: Hardback
$20.67

Whether you’re a fine bit of stuff or you have a head like a lump of wet turf, this invaluable collection of Ireland’s...  Read More >>

Language Variation and Language Change Across the Lifespan: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives from Panel Studies

Language Variation and Language Change Across the Lifespan:...

Author: Karen V. Beaman (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany) ,  Isabelle Buchstaller (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
ISBN: 9780367704803
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume brings together research on panel studies with the aim of providing a coherent empirical and theoretical...  Read More >>

Welsh English

Welsh English

Author: Heli Paulasto ,  Rob Penhallurick
ISBN: 9781501521065
Format: Paperback
$34.23

This book is the first comprehensive, research-based description of the development, structure, and use of Welsh...  Read More >>

The True Blue Guide to Australian Slang: A-Z journey through the words, expressions and cultural idiosyncrasies that make Australians so unique

The True Blue Guide to Australian Slang: A-Z journey...

Author: Jenny Hunter
ISBN: 9781760792602
Format: Hardback
$16.99

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Kongish: Translanguaging and the Commodification of an Urban Dialect

Kongish: Translanguaging and the Commodification of...

Author: Tong King Lee (University of Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781009281133
Format: Paperback
$46.58

This Element introduces Kongish as a translingual and multimodal urban dialect emerging in Hong Kong in recent years...  Read More >>

Dave's Book of Aussie Slang: The Hidden Humour in a Nation's Chat

Dave's Book of Aussie Slang: The Hidden Humour in a...

Author: Dave Andrew
ISBN: 9781838611293
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Part guidebook, part citizenship test, part social bible, this is how to speak Strine for visitors new to the shores...  Read More >>

Will I Ever Pee Alone Again?: Poems for mums

Will I Ever Pee Alone Again?: Poems for mums

Author: Emma Conway ,  Emma Conway
ISBN: 9781408726495
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Hilarious and uplifting poems on the highs and lows of motherhood - the perfect gift for any mums in your life  Read More >>

Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects of Kurdish

Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects...

Author: Yaron Matras ,  Geoffrey Haig
ISBN: 9783030788360
Format: Hardback
$290.37

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

The Verbal Aspect Integral to the Perfect and Pluperfect Tense-Forms in the Pauline Corpus: A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis

The Verbal Aspect Integral to the Perfect and Pluperfect...

Author: D.A. Carson ,  James E. Sedlacek
ISBN: 9781433195730
Format: Hardback
$290.27

This book argues that the verbal aspect of the Greek Perfect is complex, involving not one but two aspects, where...  Read More >>

Standard Basque and Its Dialects

Standard Basque and Its Dialects

Author: Koldo Zuazo ,  Gregor Benton
ISBN: 9781032401713
Format: Paperback
$90.99

The origins of Basque dialects are examined, a highly disputed area of research in Basque studies.  Read More >>

Italo-Romance Dialects in the Linguistic Repertoires of Immigrants in Italy

Italo-Romance Dialects in the Linguistic Repertoires...

Author: Francesco Goglia ,  Matthias Wolny
ISBN: 9783030993672
Format: Hardback
$336.35

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

Los castellanos del Perú: historia, variación y contacto lingüístico

Los castellanos del Perú: historia, variación y contacto...

Author: Luis Andrade Ciudad ,  Sandro Sessarego (The University of Texas, Austin)
ISBN: 9780367538293
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Este libro reúne contribuciones de destacados investigadores de la lingüística hispánica para ofrecer un panorama...  Read More >>

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