Dialect, slang & jargon books

1314 books were found.

The Godzone Dictionary

The Godzone Dictionary

Author: Max Cryer
ISBN: 9781775594000
Format: Paperback
$29.99

The Godzone Dictionary is a concise A – Z of the words and phrases that make our New Zealand language so distinctive...  Read More >>

The Emoji Revolution: How Technology is Shaping the Future of Communication

The Emoji Revolution: How Technology is Shaping the...

Author: Philip Seargeant
ISBN: 9781108721790
Format: Paperback
$38.79

Ideal for general readers as well as students and researchers of language, linguistics and communication, this book...  Read More >>

The Emoji Revolution: How Technology is Shaping the Future of Communication

The Emoji Revolution: How Technology is Shaping the...

Author: Philip Seargeant
ISBN: 9781108496643
Format: Hardback
$173.36

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Hessisches Jiddisch: Quellen Zur Sprache Der Juden Im Zentralhessischen Raum

Hessisches Jiddisch: Quellen Zur Sprache Der Juden Im...

Author: Lea Schafer
ISBN: 9783447112383
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Ein zentrales Merkmal der judisch-aschkenasischen Kultur ist die jiddische Sprache, die heute zumeist mit den (orthodoxen)...  Read More >>

Hybridity in Londonstani's Italian Translation

Hybridity in Londonstani's Italian Translation

Author: Valeria Monello
ISBN: 9781527536685
Format: Hardback
$152.64

This volume investigates how fictional literary varieties and characterising discourse in a literary text can be...  Read More >>

Orbs and the Attack of the Hair Spiders

Orbs and the Attack of the Hair Spiders

Author: A. M. Richardson
ISBN: 9781916064300
Format: Paperback
$23.26

Orbs and the Attack of the Hair Spiders begins a fantastic journey full of magic, strange beasts, family and friendship....  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: 9780367143572
Format: Hardback
$112.00

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

Listening to the Past: Audio Records of Accents of English

Listening to the Past: Audio Records of Accents of English...

Author: Raymond Hickey (Universität Duisburg–Essen)
ISBN: 9781107660205
Format: Paperback
$85.36

Audio recordings of English are available from the first half of the twentieth century and complement the written...  Read More >>

Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Essays on Gaelic Poetry and Song

Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Essays on Gaelic...

Author: Virginia Blankenhorn
ISBN: 9781788745529
Format: Paperback
$156.54

Since World War I, communities of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, characterised by collaborative effort and a robust sense...  Read More >>

Specialised English: New Directions in ESP and EAP Research and Practice

Specialised English: New Directions in ESP and EAP Research...

Author: Ken Hyland (The University of Hong Kong) ,  Lillian L C Wong (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781138588752
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book provides an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the latest avenues of research and practice in the...  Read More >>

Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English: New Methods and Insights

Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English:...

Author: Heike Pichler (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
ISBN: 9781107659483
Format: Paperback
$67.25

This volume brings together leading scholars in sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics to introduce new methods...  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: 9780691188959
Format: Hardback
$54.99

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

Enlightenment: Book One of the Bathala Series

Enlightenment: Book One of the Bathala Series

Author: Reno Ursal ,  Clark Rakia
ISBN: 9780984440818
Format: Paperback
$37.86

When Dorothy Dizon meets the mysterious Adrian Rosario and his alluring knowledge of Filipino history, her life...  Read More >>

African American Slang: A Linguistic Description

African American Slang: A Linguistic Description

Author: Maciej Widawski
ISBN: 9781107424401
Format: Paperback
$67.25

In this pioneering exploration of African American slang, Widawski explores patterns of form, meaning, theme and...  Read More >>

Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation

Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation...

Author: David Crystal
ISBN: 9781781256107
Format: Paperback
$27.99

The newest volume in David Crystal's pentalogy of the English language, focusing on the subtleties of pronunciation....  Read More >>

Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces

Italian Dialectology at the Interfaces

Author: Silvio Cruschina (University of Vienna) ,  Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9789027201768
Format: Hardback
$214.76

These studies on the dialects of Italy provide Romance and theoretical linguists with insights into how different...  Read More >>

Rhyme over Reason: Phonological Motivation in English

Rhyme over Reason: Phonological Motivation in English...

Author: Réka Benczes
ISBN: 9781108491877
Format: Hardback
$243.20

Ideal for scholars and students of linguistics, discourse, stylistics and language play, this book explores the...  Read More >>

[Set Varieties of English, Volume 1-4]

[Set Varieties of English, Volume 1-4]

Author: Bernd Kortmann ,  Edgar W. Schneider
ISBN: 9783110662184
Format: Paperback
$263.97

These new multimedia textbooks cover the phonology, morphology and syntax of varieties of English around the world....  Read More >>

Standard Basque and Its Dialects

Standard Basque and Its Dialects

Author: Koldo Zuazo ,  Gregor Benton
ISBN: 9781138367548
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The origins of Basque dialects are examined, a highly disputed area of research in Basque studies.  Read More >>

Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English

Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English...

Author: James B. McMillan ,  Michael B. Montgomery
ISBN: 9780817359362
Format: Paperback
$105.47

The only book-length bibliography on the speech of the American South, this volume focuses on the pronunciation,...  Read More >>

Österreichisches Deutsch macht Schule: Bildung und Deutschunterricht im Spannungsfeld von sprachlicher Variation und Norm

Österreichisches Deutsch macht Schule: Bildung und Deutschunterricht...

Author: Rudolf de Cillia ,  Jutta Ransmayr
ISBN: 9783205208884
Format: Hardback
$100.89

"Dieses Buch bietet einen Forschungsüberblick zum Thema Innere Mehrsprachigkeit und sprachliche Variation"" und...  Read More >>

It's All Greek: Borrowed Words and their Histories

It's All Greek: Borrowed Words and their Histories

Author: Alexander Tulloch
ISBN: 9781851245055
Format: Hardback
$39.99

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