Dialect, slang & jargon books

1314 books were found.

Conversations with Strangers

Conversations with Strangers

Author: William Labov (University of Pennsylvania) ,  Gillian Sankoff (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781009340939
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element documents the evolution of a research program that began in the early 1960s with the author's first...  Read More >>

Humor 2.0: How the Internet Changed Humor

Humor 2.0: How the Internet Changed Humor

Author: Salvatore Attardo
ISBN: 9781839988561
Format: Hardback
$160.00

The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences....  Read More >>

Dialect, Voice, and Identity in Chinese Translation: A Descriptive Study of Chinese Translations of Huckleberry Finn, Tess, and Pygmalion

Dialect, Voice, and Identity in Chinese Translation:...

Author: Jing Yu
ISBN: 9781032025988
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Dialect, Voice, and Identity in Chinese Translation is the first book-length attempt to undertake a descriptive...  Read More >>

Things and Stuff: The Semantics of the Count-Mass Distinction

Things and Stuff: The Semantics of the Count-Mass Distinction...

Author: Tibor Kiss (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany) ,  Francis Jeffry Pelletier (University of Alberta)
ISBN: 9781108932820
Format: Paperback
$62.07

With contributions from world-renowned scholars, this book explains how both modern linguistics and individual languages...  Read More >>

The Rise of Discourse Markers

The Rise of Discourse Markers

Author: Bernd Heine ,  Gunther Kaltenböck
ISBN: 9781108987288
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Discourse markers constitute an important part of linguistic communication. This pioneering book presents a detailed...  Read More >>

Corpus Dialectology

Corpus Dialectology

Author: Elissa Pustka (University of Vienna) ,  Carmen Quijada Van den Berghe (University of Salamanca)
ISBN: 9789027213983
Format: Hardback
$227.70

Corpus Dialectology combines the fields of corpus linguistics and dialectological mapping. It concerns documentation...  Read More >>

English Dialect Dictionary Online: A New Departure in English Dialectology

English Dialect Dictionary Online: A New Departure in...

Author: Manfred Markus
ISBN: 9781108814447
Format: Paperback
$56.90

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Scottish Plant Names: An A to Z

Scottish Plant Names: An A to Z

Author: Gregory Kenicer
ISBN: 9781910877449
Format: Hardback
$43.96

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East Anglian English

East Anglian English

Author: Peter Trudgill
ISBN: 9781501521478
Format: Paperback
$58.05

This book is the first full-scale scientific study of East Anglian English. The author is a native East Anglian...  Read More >>

Code-Choice and Identity Construction on Stage

Code-Choice and Identity Construction on Stage

Author: Sirkku Aaltonen
ISBN: 9780367501402
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Code-Choice and Identity Construction on Stage challenges the general assumption that language is only one of the...  Read More >>

Sociolinguistic Approaches to Sibilant Variation in Spanish

Sociolinguistic Approaches to Sibilant Variation in...

Author: Eva Núñez-Méndez (Portland State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780367722210
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Social processes and the nature of language variation have driven sibilant variation across the Spanish-speaking...  Read More >>

The Dialect of Polish Spoken in Cruz Machado, Paraná: A Portrait of a Language Apart

The Dialect of Polish Spoken in Cruz Machado, Paraná:...

Author: Konstanze Jungbluth ,  Karolina J. Zaremba
ISBN: 9783631873021
Format: Hardback
$139.73

The book focuses on a dialect of Polish spoken as a heritage language in a rural community in southern Brazil. The...  Read More >>

The Book of Feckin' Irish Sayings For When You Go On The Batter With A Shower of Savages

The Book of Feckin' Irish Sayings For When You Go On...

Author: Colin Murphy ,  Donal O'Dea
ISBN: 9781788494090
Format: Hardback
$20.67

Whether you’re a fine bit of stuff or you have a head like a lump of wet turf, this invaluable collection of Ireland’s...  Read More >>

Phonetics of Chinese Dialects: An instrumental survey

Phonetics of Chinese Dialects: An instrumental survey...

Author: Wai Sum Lee
ISBN: 9781138650596
Format: Hardback
$221.00

This comprehensive study of the phonetic properties of the sounds of Chinese dialects is based on instrumental data...  Read More >>

Language Variation and Language Change Across the Lifespan: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives from Panel Studies

Language Variation and Language Change Across the Lifespan:...

Author: Karen V. Beaman (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany) ,  Isabelle Buchstaller (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
ISBN: 9780367704803
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This volume brings together research on panel studies with the aim of providing a coherent empirical and theoretical...  Read More >>

The True Blue Guide to Australian Slang: A-Z journey through the words, expressions and cultural idiosyncrasies that make Australians so unique

The True Blue Guide to Australian Slang: A-Z journey...

Author: Jenny Hunter
ISBN: 9781760792602
Format: Hardback
$16.99

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Kongish: Translanguaging and the Commodification of an Urban Dialect

Kongish: Translanguaging and the Commodification of...

Author: Tong King Lee (University of Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781009281133
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element introduces Kongish as a translingual and multimodal urban dialect emerging in Hong Kong in recent years...  Read More >>

Dialectología hispánica / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Dialectology

Dialectología hispánica / The Routledge Handbook of...

Author: Francisco Moreno-Fernández ,  Rocío Caravedo
ISBN: 9780367266288
Format: Hardback
$410.00

Dialectología hispánica / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Dialectology es una obra coral que presenta las últimas...  Read More >>

Welsh English

Welsh English

Author: Heli Paulasto ,  Rob Penhallurick
ISBN: 9781501521065
Format: Paperback
$60.69

This book is the first comprehensive, research-based description of the development, structure, and use of Welsh...  Read More >>

Talking in Clichés: The Use of Stock Phrases in Discourse and Communication

Talking in Clichés: The Use of Stock Phrases in Discourse...

Author: Stella Bullo (Manchester Metropolitan University) ,  Derek Bousfield (Manchester Metropolitan University)
ISBN: 9781108458139
Format: Paperback
$69.84

Fusing cutting-edge approaches of systemic-functional linguistics and discourse approaches with Interactional and...  Read More >>

Talking in Clichés: The Use of Stock Phrases in Discourse and Communication

Talking in Clichés: The Use of Stock Phrases in Discourse...

Author: Stella Bullo (Manchester Metropolitan University) ,  Derek Bousfield (Manchester Metropolitan University)
ISBN: 9781108471633
Format: Hardback
$206.97

Fusing cutting-edge approaches of systemic-functional linguistics and discourse approaches with Interactional and...  Read More >>

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