Dialect, slang & jargon books

1322 books were found.

Cognitive Explorations into Metaphor and Metonymy

Cognitive Explorations into Metaphor and Metonymy

Author: Frank Polzenhagen ,  Zoltan Kövecses
ISBN: 9783631647707
Format: Hardback
$170.52

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

New York City English

New York City English

Author: Michael Newman
ISBN: 9781614512899
Format: Hardback
$364.29

Examines the English spoken in New York City comprehensively, including pronunciation, grammar, and discourse. Using...  Read More >>

Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community

Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community...

Author: Amy D. Clark ,  Nancy M. Hayward
ISBN: 9780813140964
Format: Hardback
$158.40

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

Brechenlich - [Auf]bringen

Brechenlich - [Auf]bringen

Author: Bayerische Akademie Der Wissenschaften D ,  Josef Denz
ISBN: 9783110348316
Format: Paperback
$49.14

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

Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community

Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community...

Author: Amy D. Clark ,  Nancy M. Hayward
ISBN: 9780813147437
Format: Paperback
$79.20

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

Archaeology and Language IV: Language Change and Cultural Transformation

Archaeology and Language IV: Language Change and Cultural...

Author: Roger Blench ,  Matthew Spriggs
ISBN: 9781138006829
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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

English in Kenya or Kenyan English?

English in Kenya or Kenyan English?

Author: Natalia Budohoska
ISBN: 9783631643990
Format: Hardback
$110.36

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Vietnam War Slang: A Dictionary on Historical Principles

Vietnam War Slang: A Dictionary on Historical Principles...

Author: Tom Dalzell
ISBN: 9780415839402
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Vietnam War Slang: A Dictionary on Historical Principles

Vietnam War Slang: A Dictionary on Historical Principles...

Author: Tom Dalzell
ISBN: 9780415839419
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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Writing from the Margins of Europe: The Application of Postcolonial Theories to Selected Works by William Butler Yeats, John Millington Synge and James Joyce

Writing from the Margins of Europe: The Application...

Author: Rachael Sumner
ISBN: 9783631650509
Format: Hardback
$157.06

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Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities

Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing...

Author: Robert McColl Millar ,  William Barras
ISBN: 9780748691777
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Over the last half century many scholars have recorded, analysed and theorised language death. This book presents...  Read More >>

Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora

Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in...

Author: Bénédicte Boisseron ,  Baenaedicte Boisseron
ISBN: 9780813049793
Format: Hardback
$197.87

This book investigates the exilic literature of Caribbean-born and Caribbean-descent writers who, from their new...  Read More >>

Ditransitives in British English Dialects

Ditransitives in British English Dialects

Author: Johanna Gerwin
ISBN: 9783110352146
Format: Hardback
$364.29

What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this `dative...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Rhyming Slangs

The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Rhyming Slangs

Author: Terry Victor ,  Antonio Lillo
ISBN: 9781623562892
Format: Hardback
$303.60

The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Rhyming Slangs provides a comprehensive and authoritative record of the variant rhyming...  Read More >>

Folk Stories and Personal Narratives in Palestinian Spoken Arabic: A Cultural and Linguistic Study

Folk Stories and Personal Narratives in Palestinian...

Author: N. Sirhan
ISBN: 9781137325754
Format: Hardback
$191.95

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The Dialects of Italy

The Dialects of Italy

Author: Martin Maiden ,  Martin Maiden
ISBN: 9781138006782
Format: Paperback
$114.00

This book makes accessible the major structural features of the dialects of Italy and emphasises the importance...  Read More >>

Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings

Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language...

Author: Paula Blank
ISBN: 9780415756846
Format: Paperback
$114.00

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Language!: Five Hundred Years of the Vulgar Tongue

Language!: Five Hundred Years of the Vulgar Tongue

Author: Jonathon Green
ISBN: 9781848878983
Format: Hardback
$64.69

The entertaining, shocking and surprising story of slang, as told by Britain's foremost slang lexicographer.  Read More >>

Teenage Talk: From General Characteristics to the Use of Pragmatic Markers in a Contrastive Perspective

Teenage Talk: From General Characteristics to the Use...

Author: A. Stenström
ISBN: 9781137430373
Format: Hardback
$143.95

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Dialect in Film and Literature

Dialect in Film and Literature

Author: Jane Hodson
ISBN: 9781403937087
Format: Paperback
$73.79

This text draws on ideas and approaches from linguistics in order to investigate the ways in which different dialects...  Read More >>

Dialect in Film and Literature

Dialect in Film and Literature

Author: Jane Hodson ,  Hodson
ISBN: 9781403937070
Format: Hardback
$197.87

This text draws on ideas and approaches from linguistics in order to investigate the ways in which different dialects...  Read More >>

Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific: Maritime Polynesian Pidgin before Pidgin English

Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific: Maritime...

Author: Emanuel J. Drechsel (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
ISBN: 9781107015104
Format: Hardback
$258.75

This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. It redefines...  Read More >>

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