Dialect, slang & jargon books

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Blowing on Yogurt and Other Egyptian Arabic Expressions: Illi in Fifty Idioms

Blowing on Yogurt and Other Egyptian Arabic Expressions:...

Author: Mona Kamel Hassan ,  Nagwa Kassabgy
ISBN: 9781649033468
Format: Hardback
$50.03

A lively and informative collection of fifty common Egyptian colloquial expressions and proverbs, this book is must...  Read More >>

The Social Life of Appalachian Englishes: A Sociolinguistic Introduction

The Social Life of Appalachian Englishes: A Sociolinguistic...

Author: Jennifer Cramer ,  Allison Burkette
ISBN: 9781032224886
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Appalachian Englishes (AEs) have a long history of representation in linguistic literature, but until now no single...  Read More >>

The Social Life of Appalachian Englishes: A Sociolinguistic Introduction

The Social Life of Appalachian Englishes: A Sociolinguistic...

Author: Jennifer Cramer ,  Allison Burkette
ISBN: 9781032727783
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Appalachian Englishes (AEs) have a long history of representation in linguistic literature, but until now no single...  Read More >>

Chinese Proverbs Illustrated

Chinese Proverbs Illustrated

Author: James Trapp
ISBN: 9781838863692
Format: Hardback
$77.60

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Communal Dialects in Baghdad

Communal Dialects in Baghdad

Author: Haim Blanc ,  David Blanc
ISBN: 9789004689794
Format: Hardback
$303.60

A revised reprint of the classic study of the communal Arabic dialects of Baghdad (Muslim, Christian, and Jewish)....  Read More >>

Language and Dialect Death: Theorising Sound Change in Obsolescent Gascon

Language and Dialect Death: Theorising Sound Change...

Author: Damien Mooney
ISBN: 9783031511004
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book offers a systematic acoustic phonetic analysis of both language and dialect death in the region of Béarn,...  Read More >>

Digital Flux, Linguistic Justice and Minoritized Languages

Digital Flux, Linguistic Justice and Minoritized Languages...

Author: Covadonga Lamar Prieto ,  Álvaro González Alba
ISBN: 9783110799316
Format: Hardback
$242.85

"The theoretical framework for the study of minoritized languages has been constructed from different areas of knowledge,...  Read More >>

Handbook of Japanese Dialects

Handbook of Japanese Dialects

Author: Nobuko Kibe ,  Tetsuo Nitta
ISBN: 9781501508417
Format: Hardback
$950.40

This volume is the first full-fledged handbook of Japanese dialects in English. The study of Japanese dialects has...  Read More >>

Emergence of Korean English: How Korea's Dynamic English is Born

Emergence of Korean English: How Korea's Dynamic English...

Author: Jieun Kiaer ,  Hyejeong Ahn (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
ISBN: 9781032257709
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Emergence of Korean English explores the dynamic nature of emerging Korean English and its impact on Korean society,...  Read More >>

Las variedades del mundo hispano: Introducción a la dialectología española

Las variedades del mundo hispano: Introducción a la...

Author: Benjamin Schmeiser (Illinois State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138209121
Format: Paperback
$73.99

Las variedades del mundo hispano takes a refreshing approach to Spanish dialectology, guiding students through the...  Read More >>

Las variedades del mundo hispano: Introducción a la dialectología española

Las variedades del mundo hispano: Introducción a la...

Author: Benjamin Schmeiser (Illinois State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138209138
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Las variedades del mundo hispano takes a refreshing approach to Spanish dialectology, guiding students through the...  Read More >>

English in the Nordic Countries: Connections, Tensions, and Everyday Realities

English in the Nordic Countries: Connections, Tensions,...

Author: Elizabeth Peterson (University of Helsinki, Finland) ,  Kristy Beers Fägersten
ISBN: 9781032224688
Format: Hardback
$284.00

People in the Nordic states – Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland – rank as among the most proficient...  Read More >>

Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects of Kurdish

Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects...

Author: Yaron Matras ,  Geoffrey Haig
ISBN: 9783030788391
Format: Paperback
$290.37

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

Liverpool: A Memoir of Words

Liverpool: A Memoir of Words

Author: Tony Crowley (The School of English, University of Leeds (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9781837644384
Format: Hardback
$51.75

Liverpool: A Memoir of Words is a work of creative non-fiction that combines the study of language in Liverpool...  Read More >>

Azuma Old Japanese: A Comparative Grammar and Reconstruction

Azuma Old Japanese: A Comparative Grammar and Reconstruction...

Author: John Kupchik
ISBN: 9783111078441
Format: Hardback
$377.49

Azuma Old Japanese is an areal term for the two major dialects of Eastern ('Azuma') Japan during the eighth century:...  Read More >>

Borrowings in Informal American English

Borrowings in Informal American English

Author: Małgorzata Kowalczyk
ISBN: 9781009346870
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Based on a rich range of contemporary sources, this insightful and practical book provides a comprehensive description...  Read More >>

Conversations with Strangers

Conversations with Strangers

Author: William Labov (University of Pennsylvania) ,  Gillian Sankoff (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781009340939
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element documents the evolution of a research program that began in the early 1960s with the author's first...  Read More >>

Humor 2.0: How the Internet Changed Humor

Humor 2.0: How the Internet Changed Humor

Author: Salvatore Attardo
ISBN: 9781839988561
Format: Hardback
$160.00

The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences....  Read More >>

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