Dialect, slang & jargon books

This volume offers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the rich linguistic diversity of Singapore.  Read More >>

When you learn English you're taught how to speak and write proper English. Then you visit an English-speaking...  Read More >>

This book guides the reader through a land where the road to hell is paved not with good intentions, but with cobbles....  Read More >>

Social processes and the nature of language variation have driven sibilant variation across the Spanish-speaking...  Read More >>

Stimme und Sprechweise tragen in hohem Masse dazu bei, wie Menschen auf uns wirken. So konnen wir neben Alter, Geschlecht...  Read More >>

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Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia is a three-volume study of the Arabic dialects spoken in Bahrain...  Read More >>

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Post World War II Hawaii: an exotic location and a formative time in American history. In Reminisce, Reflections,...  Read More >>

This book unpacks ongoing debates on pluricentricity, an idea implicit to the study of World Englishes which considers...  Read More >>

This book focuses on contemporary sociolinguistic approaches to Spanish dialectology. Each of the authors draws...  Read More >>

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

Die Dialektologie des Deutschen hat in den letzten vierzig Jahren eine erhebliche Entwicklung durchlaufen - regiolektale...  Read More >>

An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and cultures  Read More >>

The present study explores the aesthetic productivity of idiomatic ambiguity in children's literature. Looking at...  Read More >>

Linguistic varieties such as female speech, foreigner talk, and colloquial language have not gone unnoticed when...  Read More >>

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The vocabulary of past times is always fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the satirists...  Read More >>

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The perfect pocket-size companion to proliferate your profanity vocabulary. A cornucopia of classic and contemporary...  Read More >>

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