Dialect, slang & jargon books

The Bavarian Dictionary employs the principles of modern lexicography and draws on a vastly larger body of source...  Read More >>

The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of...  Read More >>

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Die Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit der synchronen Variation der regionalsyntaktischen [_sein_angefangen_]-Konstruktion...  Read More >>

In Anatolian Verbal Stem Formation, David Sasseville provides a full analysis of the Luwian, Lycian and Lydian verbal...  Read More >>

This volume showcases linguistic approaches to the study of pop culture and their potential to inform linguistic...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive linguistic exploration of textism use by bilingual young adults, illustrating...  Read More >>

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A unique and scholarly reference book on Hiberno-English – the form of English commonly spoken in Ireland, with...  Read More >>

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This presents all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single...  Read More >>

The Grammar of Central Trentino provides a comprehensive grammatical description of a Romance dialect spoken in...  Read More >>

The definitive record of post-World War Two slang, anyone with a fascination or passion for language will delight...  Read More >>

The study presents societal discourse on the status of Andalusian as a language, dialect, or local variant, starting...  Read More >>

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Examines the way in which the identity of foreign workers and foreign writers in Germany is negotiated on the basis...  Read More >>

""A linguistic analysis of the portrayal of dialect (regional and ethnic) and idiolect in David Foster Wallace's...  Read More >>

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This book is the first systematic description of the Hui'an, a variety of Southern Min spoken in the Fujian province...  Read More >>

Compares varieties of the Ojibwe language and establishes subdialect groupings for Southwestern Ojibwe, of the Algonquian...  Read More >>

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Der Fluch ist ein im Zorn geaussertes Kraftwort, das einem verhassten Menschen schaden oder ihn vernichten soll....  Read More >>

This book adopts a phylogenetic perspective in explaining the linguistic diversity within the major Chinese dialect...  Read More >>

This volume seeks to extend and expand our current understanding of the processes of language standardization, drawing...  Read More >>