Dialect, slang & jargon books

This empirical study examines the importance of dialect and dialect use in Switzerland. Based on interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

The almost incomprehensible wit and wonder of Irish slang words. Can you tell your bowsies from your gougers...  Read More >>

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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of Spanish dialects, opening new avenues of...  Read More >>

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Containing over 200 coloured dialect maps, this atlas describes the Arabic dialects of Galilee and some adjacent...  Read More >>

Unless you have trouble spelling IQ or are so mean you'd squeeze drink out of a floozie's knickers, grab this Feckin'...  Read More >>

Penry Williams' book presents an original study of Australian English and, via this, insights into Australian society....  Read More >>

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This volume discusses field research and methodology in Semitic dialectology for the first time considering them...  Read More >>

This book analyses data from a variety of sources, including soap operas, movies, plays, talk shows and other audiovisual...  Read More >>

For linguists and language teachers, as well as anthropologists, educationalists, psychologists and psycholinguists,...  Read More >>

For linguists and language teachers, as well as anthropologists, educationalists, psychologists and psycholinguists,...  Read More >>

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Ideal for general readers as well as students and researchers of language, linguistics and communication, this book...  Read More >>

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Ein zentrales Merkmal der judisch-aschkenasischen Kultur ist die jiddische Sprache, die heute zumeist mit den (orthodoxen)...  Read More >>

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Orbs and the Attack of the Hair Spiders begins a fantastic journey full of magic, strange beasts, family and friendship....  Read More >>

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

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Since World War I, communities of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, characterised by collaborative effort and a robust sense...  Read More >>

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This book provides an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the latest avenues of research and practice in the...  Read More >>

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