Dialect, slang & jargon books

1314 books were found.

Dialect, Culture, & Society in Eastern Arabia

Dialect, Culture, & Society in Eastern Arabia

Author: Clive Holes
ISBN: 9789004464575
Format: Book
$472.56

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A Thesaurus of English Dialect and Slang: England, Wales and the Channel Islands

A Thesaurus of English Dialect and Slang: England, Wales...

Author: Jonnie Robinson (British Library, London)
ISBN: 9781108473231
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Based on a prestigious nationwide survey, this thesaurus provides authentic, up-to-date information on British English...  Read More >>

Folklinguistics and Social Meaning in Australian English

Folklinguistics and Social Meaning in Australian English...

Author: Cara Penry Williams
ISBN: 9781032089485
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Penry Williams' book presents an original study of Australian English and, via this, insights into Australian society....  Read More >>

The Rise of Discourse Markers

The Rise of Discourse Markers

Author: Bernd Heine ,  Gunther Kaltenböck
ISBN: 9781108833851
Format: Hardback
$219.94

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

The Dictionary of 1980s Slang: Stranger than Fiction! The Totally Awesome Guide to Rockin' '80s Lingo

The Dictionary of 1980s Slang: Stranger than Fiction!...

Author: Rick Carlile ,  Rick Carlile
ISBN: 9781949117226
Format: Hardback
$37.49

Go back to the 1980s - the greatest decade - with this witty, incisive book of slang history and language humor....  Read More >>

The Dictionary of 1980s Slang

The Dictionary of 1980s Slang

Author: Rick Carlile ,  Rick Carlile
ISBN: 9781949117219
Format: Paperback
$20.67

STRANGER THAN FICTION! Ideal for any '80s kid, and anyone who wants to discover what made the '80s great!...  Read More >>

The Norfolk: Dialect

The Norfolk: Dialect

Author: Peter Trudgill
ISBN: 9781909796478
Format: Paperback
$25.75

New edition. Origin and explanation of Norfolk Dialect  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: 9781108832106
Format: Hardback
$219.94

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

Multilingual Singapore: Language Policies and Linguistic Realities

Multilingual Singapore: Language Policies and Linguistic...

Author: Ritu Jain
ISBN: 9781032000435
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This volume offers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the rich linguistic diversity of Singapore.  Read More >>

Multilingual Singapore: Language Policies and Linguistic Realities

Multilingual Singapore: Language Policies and Linguistic...

Author: Ritu Jain
ISBN: 9780367235192
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume offers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the rich linguistic diversity of Singapore.  Read More >>

Aussie Slang Book: An Ideal Guide For Tourists & Readers Who Are Interested In Australian Slangs: What Are Some Aussie Slang Words

Aussie Slang Book: An Ideal Guide For Tourists & Readers...

Author: Rosario Mamula
ISBN: 9798524910332
Format: Paperback
$23.73

When you learn English you're taught how to speak and write proper English. Then you visit an English-speaking...  Read More >>

Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster who wrote Australia's first dictionary

Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster...

Author: Kel Richards
ISBN: 9781460759769
Format: Paperback
$34.99

"The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir If...  Read More >>

Sociolinguistic Approaches to Sibilant Variation in Spanish

Sociolinguistic Approaches to Sibilant Variation in...

Author: Eva Núñez-Méndez (Portland State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780367722203
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

Der Einfluss Der Deutschen Dialekte Obersachsisch Und Mittelbairisch Auf Die Wahrnehmung Der Personlichkeit

Der Einfluss Der Deutschen Dialekte Obersachsisch Und...

Author: Kerstin Trillhaase
ISBN: 9783832553135
Format: Paperback
$166.32

Stimme und Sprechweise tragen in hohem Masse dazu bei, wie Menschen auf uns wirken. So konnen wir neben Alter, Geschlecht...  Read More >>

The Dialects of Spanish: A Lexical Introduction

The Dialects of Spanish: A Lexical Introduction

Author: Travis D. Sorenson
ISBN: 9781108927185
Format: Paperback
$75.01

The first of its kind, this book covers the origin, variety, and geographic distribution of a wide range of words...  Read More >>

The Dialects of Spanish: A Lexical Introduction

The Dialects of Spanish: A Lexical Introduction

Author: Travis D. Sorenson
ISBN: 9781108831789
Format: Hardback
$219.94

The first of its kind, this book covers the origin, variety, and geographic distribution of a wide range of words...  Read More >>

Bespoke: A Guide to Cycle-Speak and Saddle Slang

Bespoke: A Guide to Cycle-Speak and Saddle Slang

Author: Tom Bromley
ISBN: 9780712353656
Format: Hardback
$33.61

This book guides the reader through a land where the road to hell is paved not with good intentions, but with cobbles....  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: 9780367141219
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 2 Ethnographic Texts

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

Author: Clive Holes
ISBN: 9789004464544
Format: Paperback
$166.32

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English Dialect Dictionary Online: A New Departure in English Dialectology

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

Author: Manfred Markus
ISBN: 9781108840651
Format: Hardback
$232.85

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Cultural Contact and Linguistic Relativity among the Indians of Northwestern California

Cultural Contact and Linguistic Relativity among the...

Author: Sean O'Neill
ISBN: 9780806168845
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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Reminiscence, Reflections, and Recipes: Memories of Growing up in Hawaii

Reminiscence, Reflections, and Recipes: Memories of...

Author: Marian Morey
ISBN: 9781736299302
Format: Hardback
$75.04

"Post World War II Hawaii: an exotic location and a formative time in American history. In Reminisce, Reflections,...  Read More >>

The Pluricentricity Debate: On Austrian German and other Germanic Standard Varieties

The Pluricentricity Debate: On Austrian German and other...

Author: Stefan Dollinger
ISBN: 9780367728847
Format: Paperback
$39.99

"This book unpacks ongoing debates on pluricentricity, an idea implicit to the study of World Englishes which considers...  Read More >>

Aspects of Latin American Spanish Dialectology: In honor of Terrell A. Morgan

Aspects of Latin American Spanish Dialectology: In honor...

Author: Manuel Diaz-Campos (Indiana University - Bloomington) ,  Sandro Sessarego (University of Texas at Austin)
ISBN: 9789027208118
Format: Hardback
$227.70

This book focuses on contemporary sociolinguistic approaches to Spanish dialectology. Each of the authors draws...  Read More >>

Kerfuffle

Kerfuffle

Author: Cindy Bertrand-Flores ,  Marie Gaudet
ISBN: 9781989729229
Format: Paperback
$20.67

"""You could have won the land, instead you saved me. I don't understand..."" A heart-warming story-featuring...  Read More >>

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