Dialect, slang & jargon books

1314 books were found.

Kerfuffle

Kerfuffle

Author: Cindy Bertrand-Flores ,  Marie Gaudet
ISBN: 9781989729212
Format: Hardback
$36.20

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

Regiolekt - Der Neue Dialekt?: Akten Des 6. Kongresses Der Internationalen Gesellschaft Fur Dialektologie Des Deutschen (Igdd)

Regiolekt - Der Neue Dialekt?: Akten Des 6. Kongresses...

Author: Helen Christen ,  Brigitte Ganswindt
ISBN: 9783515129091
Format: Hardback
$269.28

Die Dialektologie des Deutschen hat in den letzten vierzig Jahren eine erhebliche Entwicklung durchlaufen - regiolektale...  Read More >>

A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter

A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter...

Author: Andrew Hui (Associate Professor of Humanities (Literature))
ISBN: 9780691210759
Format: Paperback
$34.99

An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and cultures  Aphorisms —...  Read More >>

Idioms and Ambiguity in Context: Phrasal and Compositional Readings of Idiomatic Expressions

Idioms and Ambiguity in Context: Phrasal and Compositional...

Author: Wiltrud Wagner
ISBN: 9783110685435
Format: Hardback
$205.83

The present study explores the aesthetic productivity of idiomatic ambiguity in children's literature. Looking at...  Read More >>

Welsh English

Welsh English

Author: Heli Paulasto ,  Rob Penhallurick
ISBN: 9781614513810
Format: Hardback
$382.77

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

Linguistic Planets of Belief: Mapping Language Attitudes in the American South

Linguistic Planets of Belief: Mapping Language Attitudes...

Author: Paulina Bounds ,  Jennifer Cramer
ISBN: 9781138491137
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Linguistic Planets of Belief presents a way for people to notice, examine, and question the role language plays...  Read More >>

That's the Ticket for Soup!: Victorian Views on Vocabulary as Told in the Pages of 'Punch'

That's the Ticket for Soup!: Victorian Views on Vocabulary...

Author: David Crystal
ISBN: 9781851245529
Format: Hardback
$29.99

The vocabulary of past times is always fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the satirists...  Read More >>

Linguistic Planets of Belief: Mapping Language Attitudes in the American South

Linguistic Planets of Belief: Mapping Language Attitudes...

Author: Paulina Bounds ,  Jennifer Cramer
ISBN: 9781138491120
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Linguistic Planets of Belief presents a way for people to notice, examine, and question the role language plays...  Read More >>

An den Raendern der Sprache

An den Raendern der Sprache

Author: Michael Elmentaler ,  Michael Elmentaler
ISBN: 9783631816219
Format: Hardback
$233.65

Der Band befasst sich mit Grenz- und Übergangsphänomenen der Sprache: 1) Sprachgebrauch jenseits der Darstellungsfunktion,...  Read More >>

Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek

Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek

Author: Klaas Bentein ,  Mark Janse
ISBN: 9783110608557
Format: Hardback
$274.28

Linguistic varieties such as female speech, foreigner talk, and colloquial language have not gone unnoticed when...  Read More >>

The Little Book of Profanities: Know your Sh*ts from your F*cks

The Little Book of Profanities: Know your Sh*ts from...

Author: Orange Hippo!
ISBN: 9781911610489
Format: Hardback
$14.99

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Dorn - Tr�tzer(er)

Dorn - Tr�tzer(er)

Author: Bayerische Akademie Der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783110679199
Format: Paperback
$116.13

The Bavarian Dictionary employs the principles of modern lexicography and draws on a vastly larger body of source...  Read More >>

The Handbook of Dialectology

The Handbook of Dialectology

Author: Charles Boberg (McGill University in Montreal, Canada) ,  John Nerbonne (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781119361244
Format: Paperback
$90.95

The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of...  Read More >>

Los castellanos del Perú: historia, variación y contacto lingüístico

Los castellanos del Perú: historia, variación y contacto...

Author: Luis Andrade Ciudad ,  Sandro Sessarego (The University of Texas, Austin)
ISBN: 9780367538279
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Este libro reúne contribuciones de destacados investigadores de la lingüística hispánica para ofrecer un panorama...  Read More >>

Regionale Auxiliarvariation: Interaktion, Schrift, Kognition

Regionale Auxiliarvariation: Interaktion, Schrift, Kognition...

Author: Kathrin Weber
ISBN: 9783110708721
Format: Hardback
$205.83

Die Untersuchung besch�ftigt sich mit der synchronen Variation der regionalsyntaktischen [_sein_angefangen_]-Konstruktion...  Read More >>

Anatolian Verbal Stem Formation: Luwian, Lycian and Lydian

Anatolian Verbal Stem Formation: Luwian, Lycian and...

Author: David Sasseville
ISBN: 9789004436282
Format: Hardback
$633.60

In Anatolian Verbal Stem Formation, David Sasseville provides a full analysis of the Luwian, Lycian and Lydian verbal...  Read More >>

The Pragmatics of Text Messaging: Making Meaning in Messages

The Pragmatics of Text Messaging: Making Meaning in...

Author: Michelle A. McSweeney
ISBN: 9780367590123
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book provides a comprehensive linguistic exploration of textism use by bilingual young adults, illustrating...  Read More >>

The Language of Pop Culture

The Language of Pop Culture

Author: Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg, Germany)
ISBN: 9780367593414
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume showcases linguistic approaches to the study of pop culture and their potential to inform linguistic...  Read More >>

A Dictionary of Hiberno English

A Dictionary of Hiberno English

Author: Terence Patrick Dolan ,  Blindboy Boatclub
ISBN: 9780717190201
Format: Hardback
$56.90

A unique and scholarly reference book on Hiberno-English – the form of English commonly spoken in Ireland, with...  Read More >>

Code-Choice and Identity Construction on Stage

Code-Choice and Identity Construction on Stage

Author: Sirkku Aaltonen
ISBN: 9781138088801
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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

Dante and Augustine: Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics

Dante and Augustine: Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics...

Author: Simone Marchesi
ISBN: 9781487526184
Format: Paperback
$77.60

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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang

The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang

Author: Eric Partridge
ISBN: 9780367605308
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined...  Read More >>

The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional...

Author: Tom Dalzell ,  Terry Victor
ISBN: 9780367606312
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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

Grammar of Central Trentino: A Romance Dialect from North-East Italy

Grammar of Central Trentino: A Romance Dialect from...

Author: Jan Casalicchio ,  Patrizia Cordin
ISBN: 9789004430952
Format: Hardback
$477.84

The Grammar of Central Trentino provides a comprehensive grammatical description of a Romance dialect spoken in...  Read More >>

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