Dialect, slang & jargon books

Exploring the defence and articulation of free speech in South Africa, Nash examines Dutch attempts to modernize...  Read More >>

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First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

This book treats the morphosyntax of Borgomanerese, a Northern Italian dialect. The rich description of the many...  Read More >>

This book treats the morphosyntax of Borgomanerese, a Northern Italian dialect. The rich description of the many...  Read More >>

Die alemannische Mundart der Schwarzwalder ist immer noch eher eine Angelegenheit von Fachwissenschaftlern und Spezialisten....  Read More >>

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This volume provides a space for the development of dialogue between dialectologists, language community activists,...  Read More >>

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Long denigrated as dialects of Japanese, the Ryukyuan languages are today recognized as languages in their own right....  Read More >>

This work offers a descriptive and contact-linguistic account of the grammar of Irish English, also known as 'Hiberno-English'....  Read More >>

This presents all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single...  Read More >>

Das Buch enth�lt Beitr�ge zur deutschen Sprache in �sterreich aus Sicht der Variationslinguistik und der Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung....  Read More >>

In this book, Claire Lefebrve offers a coherent picture of research on relabeling over the last 15 years, and replies...  Read More >>

In this book, Claire Lefebrve offers a coherent picture of research on relabeling over the last 15 years, and replies...  Read More >>

Offering resources for secondary English teaching that respect students’ language varieties as strengths on which...  Read More >>

Swearing, cussing, or cursing, out of anger, excitement, or just because, is something most of us do, at least to...  Read More >>

Offering resources for secondary English teaching that respect students’ language varieties as strengths on which...  Read More >>

This volume presents cognitive-linguistic studies on metaphor and metonymy. It includes papers with a theoretical...  Read More >>

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In this book, Orin Hargraves provides a concise and lively guide to the most abused phrases in the English language...  Read More >>

With contributions from well-known authors such as George Ella Lyon and Silas House, this balanced collection is...  Read More >>

Das Bayerische Woerterbuch (BWB) fuhrt - nach den Grundsatzen moderner Lexikographie und auf ungleich groesserer...  Read More >>

With contributions from well-known authors such as George Ella Lyon and Silas House, this balanced collection is...  Read More >>

This volume provides a challenging variety of case-studies which demonstrate how global patterns of language distribution...  Read More >>