Dialect, slang & jargon books

1314 books were found.

White Hip Hoppers, Language and Identity in Post-Modern America

White Hip Hoppers, Language and Identity in Post-Modern...

Author: Cecelia Cutler
ISBN: 9781138549067
Format: Paperback
$98.99

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The Sociopragmatics of Attitude Datives in Levantine Arabic

The Sociopragmatics of Attitude Datives in Levantine...

Author: Youssef A. Haddad
ISBN: 9781474434072
Format: Hardback
$194.06

This book analyses data from a variety of sources, including soap operas, movies, plays, talk shows and other audiovisual...  Read More >>

The Language of Pop Culture

The Language of Pop Culture

Author: Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg, Germany)
ISBN: 9781138051706
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume showcases linguistic approaches to the study of pop culture and their potential to inform linguistic...  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: 9781118827550
Format: Hardback
$363.95

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

500 Common Korean Idioms

500 Common Korean Idioms

Author: Danielle O. Pyun ,  Danielle Ooyoung Pyun
ISBN: 9781138698277
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation

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

Author: David Crystal
ISBN: 9781781256091
Format: Hardback
$29.99

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

Odd Job Man: Some Confessions of a Slang Lexicographer

Odd Job Man: Some Confessions of a Slang Lexicographer...

Author: Jonathon Green
ISBN: 9781787330238
Format: Paperback
$49.99

For thirty years Jonathon Green has been collecting slang – the indefinable language of the gutter, the brothel,...  Read More >>

Identity and Dialect Performance: A Study of Communities and Dialects

Identity and Dialect Performance: A Study of Communities...

Author: Reem Bassiouney
ISBN: 9781138241787
Format: Paperback
$65.99

This book discusses the relation between identity and dialects.  Read More >>

Language, Capitalism, Colonialism: Toward a Critical History

Language, Capitalism, Colonialism: Toward a Critical...

Author: Monica Heller ,  Bonnie McElhinny
ISBN: 9781442606203
Format: Paperback
$89.99

Providing an original approach to the study of language by linking it to the political and economic contexts of...  Read More >>

Identity and Dialect Performance: A Study of Communities and Dialects

Identity and Dialect Performance: A Study of Communities...

Author: Reem Bassiouney
ISBN: 9781138241756
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book discusses the relation between identity and dialects.  Read More >>

What They Didn't Teach You In French Class: Slang Phrases for the Cafe, Club, Bar, Bedroom, Ball Game and More

What They Didn't Teach You In French Class: Slang Phrases...

Author: Adrien Clautrier ,  Adrien Clautrier
ISBN: 9781612436821
Format: Hardback
$34.19

Slang books are perennial strong sellers Up to date with the latest slang expressions Fun to read with an attitude...  Read More >>

What They Didn't Teach You In German Class: Slang Phrases for the Cafe, Club, Bar, Bedroom, Ball Game and More

What They Didn't Teach You In German Class: Slang Phrases...

Author: Daniel Chaffey
ISBN: 9781612436760
Format: Hardback
$34.19

Slang books are perennial strong sellers Up to date with the latest slang expressions Fun to read with an attitude...  Read More >>

Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain

Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain...

Author: Susie Dent
ISBN: 9781473623897
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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The Stories of Slang: Language at its most human

The Stories of Slang: Language at its most human

Author: Jonathon Green
ISBN: 9781472139665
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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Jugendkommunikation und Dialekt: Syntax gesprochener Sprache bei Jugendlichen in Osttirol

Jugendkommunikation und Dialekt: Syntax gesprochener...

Author: Melanie Lenzhofer
ISBN: 9783110501469
Format: Hardback
$231.57

By examining communication among young people in East Tyrol, this study offers for the first time detailed insight...  Read More >>

By Time is Everything Revealed: And Other Irish proverbs for Mindful Living

By Time is Everything Revealed: And Other Irish proverbs...

Author: Fiann O Nuallain
ISBN: 9780717170982
Format: Hardback
$46.55

Fiann Ó Nualláin brings old Irish proverbs to life for the present generation. Each proverb is carefully chosen...  Read More >>

Shorter Dictionary of Catch Phrases

Shorter Dictionary of Catch Phrases

Author: Rosalind Fergusson
ISBN: 9781138429277
Format: Hardback
$368.00

An abridged version of Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Catch Phrases, concentrating on those phrases in current use...  Read More >>

Essential Korean Reader

Essential Korean Reader

Author: Jaemin Roh
ISBN: 9781138188259
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Beginner Korean Reader offers supplementary reading material for students in the early stages of learning Korean....  Read More >>

Essential Korean Reader

Essential Korean Reader

Author: Jaemin Roh
ISBN: 9781138188242
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Remade in France: Anglicisms in the Lexicon and Morphology of French

Remade in France: Anglicisms in the Lexicon and Morphology...

Author: Valérie Saugera (Associate Professor Of French, Associate Professor Of French, University of Connecticut)
ISBN: 9780190625542
Format: Hardback
$170.95

Remade in France: Anglicisms in the Lexicon and Morphology of French chronicles the current status of French Anglicisms,...  Read More >>

Argobba Speech Varieties: Volume One: Comparison

Argobba Speech Varieties: Volume One: Comparison

Author: Girma A. Demeke
ISBN: 9781569024072
Format: Paperback
$93.12

Argobba belongs to the South Ethio-Semitic language group and is considered to be in critical endangerment. It has...  Read More >>

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