Dialect, slang & jargon books

1320 books were found.

The Old Words of Herefordshire

The Old Words of Herefordshire

Author: Richard Wheeler
ISBN: 9781910839768
Format: Hardback
$33.61

This collection of 3,000 Herefordshire words and phrases draws on a number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance

Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and...

Author: Belinda Edmondson
ISBN: 9780198914648
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Whare de yea belang?: A Dictionary of North East Dialect

Whare de yea belang?: A Dictionary of North East Dialect...

Author: Bill Griffiths
ISBN: 9780857162700
Format: Paperback
$37.99

"""Abackabeyont, bait-poke, drucken, fettle, guissie pigs, marra, nyen, plote, queen-cat, yem, zookers!"" If you...  Read More >>

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 >>

Chinese Dialectology: A Historical and Social Overview

Chinese Dialectology: A Historical and Social Overview...

Author: Rujie You ,  Bei Yang
ISBN: 9789819710478
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book explores one of the richest dialect families in the world: Chinese dialects.  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 >>

Pitmatic: Stories and the Talk of The North East Coalfield

Pitmatic: Stories and the Talk of The North East Coalfield...

Author: Bill Griffiths
ISBN: 9780857162724
Format: Paperback
$37.99

Pitmatic brings together a wonderful regional pit language - its words, jokes, stories and songs that are fast disappearing...  Read More >>

Chinese Proverbs Illustrated

Chinese Proverbs Illustrated

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

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A Winning Dialect: Reinventing Linguistic Tradition in Rural Norway

A Winning Dialect: Reinventing Linguistic Tradition...

Author: Thea R. Strand
ISBN: 9781487545963
Format: Paperback
$49.14

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A Winning Dialect: Reinventing Linguistic Tradition in Rural Norway

A Winning Dialect: Reinventing Linguistic Tradition...

Author: Thea R. Strand
ISBN: 9781487545956
Format: Hardback
$134.55

A Winning Dialect tells the story of linguistic and cultural change in rural Norway over the last two decades.  Read More >>

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
$284.60

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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 >>

Digitally-assisted Historical English Linguistics

Digitally-assisted Historical English Linguistics

Author: Carolina P. Amador-Moreno ,  Dagmar Haumann
ISBN: 9781032418995
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This collection features different perspectives on how digital tools are changing our understanding of language...  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 >>

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