Dialect, slang & jargon books

1320 books were found.

Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime

Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of...

Author: Jonathon Green
ISBN: 9780099549994
Format: Paperback
$19.99

The language of crime has a long and venerable history - in fact, the first collection of words specifically used...  Read More >>

Slang: A Very Short Introduction

Slang: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Jonathon Green (Independent scholar)
ISBN: 9780198729532
Format: Paperback
$21.95

What words qualify as slang? Should slang be acknowledged as a language in itself? And what does the digital revolution...  Read More >>

North East Arabian Dialects: Monograph 3

North East Arabian Dialects: Monograph 3

Author: Bruce Ingham
ISBN: 9781138977273
Format: Paperback
$94.99

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Faith and Philosophical Enquiry

Faith and Philosophical Enquiry

Author: D.Z. Phillips
ISBN: 9781138969513
Format: Paperback
$94.99

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Studies in Linguistic Geography (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics): The Dialects of English in Britain and Ireland

Studies in Linguistic Geography (RLE Linguistics D:...

Author: John M. Kirk ,  Stewart Sanderson
ISBN: 9781138983199
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The publication in the past ten years of linguistic atlases of England and Scotland has not only advanced our knowledge...  Read More >>

Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature: From Alexis to the Digital Age

Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature:...

Author: Jeannine Murray-Román
ISBN: 9780813938479
Format: Hardback
$157.08

Focusing on the literary representation of performance practices in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean...  Read More >>

Scoor-oot: A Dictionary of Scots Words and Phrases in Current Use

Scoor-oot: A Dictionary of Scots Words and Phrases in...

Author: James A.C. Stevenson (Late of The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue) ,  Iseabail Macleod (Scottish Language Dictionaries, UK)
ISBN: 9781474247191
Format: Hardback
$280.00

This dictionary covers a multitude of Scots words and expressions, some of which have entered into English worldwide,...  Read More >>

The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology: History, theory, practice

The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology: History,...

Author: Stefan Dollinger (University of Gothenburg & University of British Columbia)
ISBN: 9789027258311
Format: Hardback
$227.70

This book is the first monograph-length account on written questionnaires in more than 60 years. It reconnects -...  Read More >>

Researching Northern English

Researching Northern English

Author: Raymond Hickey (University of Duisburg and Essen)
ISBN: 9789027249159
Format: Hardback
$214.76

Northern English has become the focus of intensive research in the past decade or so, following on a series of dedicated...  Read More >>

Origins of Yiddish Dialects

Origins of Yiddish Dialects

Author: Alexander Beider (Independent scholar, Independent scholar)
ISBN: 9780198739319
Format: Hardback
$394.95

This book presents evidence for the claim that, contrary to most accounts, Yiddish only developed into a separate...  Read More >>

Trends in Phonetics and Phonology: Studies from German-speaking Europe

Trends in Phonetics and Phonology: Studies from German-speaking...

Author: Adrian Leemann ,  Marie-José Kolly
ISBN: 9783034316538
Format: Hardback
$160.43

The volume includes state of the art research on phonetics and phonology in various languages and from interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

Soldier Slang of the First World War

Soldier Slang of the First World War

Author: Emily Brewer
ISBN: 9781445649887
Format: Paperback
$23.26

From Ammo to Zig-Zag, many of the words we use today were invented in the First World War. They provide a unique...  Read More >>

English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles, Fifth Edition

English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social...

Author: Arthur Hughes (formerly of Reading University, UK) ,  Peter Trudgill
ISBN: 9781138128309
Format: Hardback
$368.00

English Accents and Dialects provides a unique introductory guide to the regional and social varieties of English...  Read More >>

Regionale Variation des Deutschen

Regionale Variation des Deutschen

Author: Roland Kehrein ,  Alfred Lameli
ISBN: 9783110363289
Format: Hardback
$384.24

Regional varieties of the German language have undergone major change in the course of the 20th century, stimulating...  Read More >>

Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs

Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs

Author: Jennifer Speake
ISBN: 9780198734901
Format: Paperback
$28.95

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Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume III: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style

Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume...

Author: Clive Holes
ISBN: 9789004302631
Format: Hardback
$586.08

The aim of Dialect, Culture and Society in Eastern Arabia is to give a detailed description of the Arabic dialects...  Read More >>

Leicestershire Dialect

Leicestershire Dialect

Author: Diane Davies
ISBN: 9781910551103
Format: Paperback
$12.91

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Arabic in the City: Issues in Dialect Contact and Language Variation

Arabic in the City: Issues in Dialect Contact and Language...

Author: Catherine Miller ,  Enam Al-Wer (University of Essex, UK)
ISBN: 9780415762175
Format: Paperback
$114.00

This book is an edited collection that examines how urbanization is causing language change in major Arab cities....  Read More >>

Colloquial German 2: The Next Step in Language Learning

Colloquial German 2: The Next Step in Language Learning...

Author: Annette Duensing (The Open University, UK) ,  Carolyn Batstone
ISBN: 9781138958326
Format: Paperback
$64.99

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Slangauge of Love: How to Speak the Language of Love in 10 Different Languages

Slangauge of Love: How to Speak the Language of Love...

Author: Mike Ellis
ISBN: 9781423639312
Format: Paperback
$14.99

Provides the meaning and pronunciation of several love-related phrases in ten different languages, including Russian,...  Read More >>

Traveling Conceptualizations: A cognitive and anthropological linguistic study of Jamaican

Traveling Conceptualizations: A cognitive and anthropological...

Author: Andrea Hollington (University of Cologne)
ISBN: 9789027202970
Format: Hardback
$227.70

Traveling Conceptualizations is a monograph which is concerned with African cultural conceptualizations in Jamaican....  Read More >>

Vice Slang

Vice Slang

Author: Tom Dalzell ,  Terry Victor
ISBN: 9781138834996
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Vice Slang gently eases you into the language of gambling, drugs and alcohol, providing you with 3,000 words to...  Read More >>

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