Dialect, slang & jargon books

1320 books were found.

Watching English Change: An Introduction to the Study of Linguistic Change in Standard Englishes in the 20th Century

Watching English Change: An Introduction to the Study...

Author: Laurie Bauer
ISBN: 9781138154445
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Real English: The Grammar of English Dialects in the British Isles

Real English: The Grammar of English Dialects in the...

Author: James Milroy ,  Lesley Milroy
ISBN: 9781138150973
Format: Hardback
$252.00

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

How to Talk Teen: From Asshat to Zup, the Totes Awesome Dictionary of Teenage Slang

How to Talk Teen: From Asshat to Zup, the Totes Awesome...

Author: Mark Leigh
ISBN: 9781472137449
Format: Hardback
$29.99

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Dialect Atlas of North Yemen and Adjacent Areas

Dialect Atlas of North Yemen and Adjacent Areas

Author: Peter Behnstedt ,  Gwendolin Goldbloom
ISBN: 9789004325692
Format: Hardback
$757.68

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The Criminal Alphabet: An A-Z of Prison Slang

The Criminal Alphabet: An A-Z of Prison Slang

Author: Noel 'Razor' Smith
ISBN: 9780141038568
Format: Paperback
$39.99

From ex-professional bank robber, this is a dictionary of criminal slang out there - and an absorbing journey, through...  Read More >>

Sex Slang

Sex Slang

Author: Tom Dalzell ,  Terry Victor
ISBN: 9781138178229
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Sex Slang not only gives you 3,000 new words to talk about your favourite pastimes, it will open your eyes to practices...  Read More >>

Variation in English: Multi-Dimensional Studies

Variation in English: Multi-Dimensional Studies

Author: Douglas Biber ,  Susan Conrad
ISBN: 9781138153479
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Multi-Dimensional studies (MD) is a new statistical approach to language variation developed by Doug Biber.  Read More >>

A Dictionary of Rhyming Slang

A Dictionary of Rhyming Slang

Author: Julian Franklyn
ISBN: 9781138152984
Format: Hardback
$252.00

This well-known, authoritative dictionary is wittily illustrated and provides a dependable guide to a fascinating...  Read More >>

Dialect Matters: Respecting Vernacular Language

Dialect Matters: Respecting Vernacular Language

Author: Peter Trudgill (Universitetet i Agder, Norway)
ISBN: 9781107130470
Format: Hardback
$142.31

A fascinating exploration of English, its origins, dialects, accents, and place-names. Trudgill asks questions such...  Read More >>

Talkin' Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina

Talkin' Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North...

Author: Walt Wolfram ,  Jeffrey Reaser
ISBN: 9781469629995
Format: Paperback
$63.36

Drawing on over two decades of research and 3,000 recorded interviews from every corner of the state, Walt Wolfram...  Read More >>

Aspects of Language Variation in Arabic Political Speech-Making

Aspects of Language Variation in Arabic Political Speech-Making...

Author: Nathalie Mazraani
ISBN: 9781138963993
Format: Paperback
$90.99

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles

Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles

Author: Paul Foulkes ,  Gerard Docherty
ISBN: 9781138148444
Format: Hardback
$273.00

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Varieties of Modern English: An Introduction

Varieties of Modern English: An Introduction

Author: Diane Davies
ISBN: 9781138173095
Format: Hardback
$273.00

The 'story' of English is continually re-told and re-written, as more and more people use the language and have...  Read More >>

The Disappearing Dictionary: A Treasury of Lost English Dialect Words

The Disappearing Dictionary: A Treasury of Lost English...

Author: David Crystal
ISBN: 9781509801763
Format: Paperback
$25.85

A beautiful gift book that collects together brilliantly quirky English dialect words, before they disappear for...  Read More >>

500 Common Korean Idioms

500 Common Korean Idioms

Author: Danielle O. Pyun ,  Danielle Ooyoung Pyun
ISBN: 9781315519494
Format: Paperback
$70.99

500 Common Korean Idioms is a useful learner’s tool which presents the 500 most commonly used Korean idioms in a...  Read More >>

Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English: New Methods and Insights

Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English:...

Author: Heike Pichler (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
ISBN: 9781316592731
Format: Electronic book text
$232.32

This volume brings together leading scholars in sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics to introduce new methods...  Read More >>

Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English: New Methods and Insights

Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English:...

Author: Heike Pichler (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
ISBN: 9781107055766
Format: Hardback
$181.13

This volume brings together leading scholars in sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics to introduce new methods...  Read More >>

The Language of Jokes: Analyzing Verbal Play

The Language of Jokes: Analyzing Verbal Play

Author: Delia Chiaro
ISBN: 9781138144842
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Explores the pragmatics of word play, using frameworks normally adopted in descriptive linguistics. Examines the...  Read More >>

Negation in Non-Standard British English: Gaps, Regularizations and Asymmetries

Negation in Non-Standard British English: Gaps, Regularizations...

Author: Lieselotte Anderwald
ISBN: 9781138976863
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Based on the British National Corpus, this book investigates a range of morphosyntactic features of negation that...  Read More >>

The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Assyrian Christians of Urmi (4 vols)

The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Assyrian Christians of...

Author: Geoffrey Khan
ISBN: 9789004313897
Format: Hardback
$1993.20

This work is a documentation of the Neo-Aramaic dialect spoken by Assyrian Christians in the region of Urmi (northwestern-Iran)....  Read More >>

Coastal Dhofari Arabic: A Sketch Grammar

Coastal Dhofari Arabic: A Sketch Grammar

Author: Richard Davey
ISBN: 9789004316706
Format: Hardback
$409.20

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Doublespeak

Doublespeak

Author: William Lutz
ISBN: 9781632460172
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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Dialects for the Stage

Dialects for the Stage

Author: Evangeline Machlin
ISBN: 9781138143876
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Need to know a Russian accent? Playing a German countess or a Midwestern farmhand? These and more accents – from...  Read More >>

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