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Bad Words: And What They Say About Us
Philip GoodenCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99Once upon a time, the worst words you could utter were short, simple and tended to be four letters in length. Now things are more complicated. To b...
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Save 5% Linguistic Explorations in Translation Studies: Analyses of English Translations of Ancient Chinese Poems and Lyrics
Guowen HuangCurrent price €84.54Original price €88.99Linguistic Explorations in Translation Studies provides an English translation of one of the first attempts made by a Chinese scholar to apply Hall...
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Save 5% The Phonetics of Taiwanese
Hui-lu KhooCurrent price €59.84Original price €62.99Taiwanese, formerly the lingua franca of Taiwan and currently the second largest language on the island, is genealogically related to Min from the ...
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Save 5% The Phonetics of Taiwanese
Hui-lu KhooCurrent price €21.84Original price €22.99Taiwanese, formerly the lingua franca of Taiwan and currently the second largest language on the island, is genealogically related to Min from the ...
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Save 10% Dialectology and the Linguistic Atlas Project
Allison BurketteCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99People from different places use different words for things, even everyday things such as carbonated beverages (e.g. soda, coke, pop) or bread roll...
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Save 5% The Pocket Scottish English
Gemini Books Group LtdCurrent price €13.29Original price €13.99Know your Arbroath smokies from your wynds, your trews from your sporran, and . . . lang may yer lum reek! Some say that Scots use more Scottish sl...
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Save 5% The Pocket Yorkshire English
Gemini Books Group LtdCurrent price €13.29Original price €13.99The dialects of English still spoken in Yorkshire, known collectively as Broad Yorkshire, Tyke or Yorkie, are both colourful and instantly recognis...
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Save 5% Hong Kong English
Brian H. S. ChanCurrent price €98.79Original price €103.99This volume provides an overview of all aspects of Hong Kong English in a style designed for undergraduates and general readers. As a former Britis...
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Save 5% Dialekte machen: Konstruktion und Gebrauch arealer Varianten im Kontext sprachraumbezogener Alltagsdiskurse
Alexandra SchiesserCurrent price €132.04Original price €138.99Die empirische Studie untersucht die gesellschaftliche Bedeutung von Dialekt und Dialektgebrauch in der Schweiz. Über interdisziplinäre Zugänge arb...
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Save 10% Sprache und Religion: Tendenzen und Perspektiven
De GruyterCurrent price €94.49Original price €104.99In dem vorliegenden Band Sprache und Religion Tendenzen und Perspektiven werden aktuelle Forschungsprojekte, empirische und methodologische Weiter...
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Save 5% Personenreferenz im Dialekt: Grammatik und Pragmatik inoffizieller Personennamen in Dialekten des Deutschen
Theresa SchwedenCurrent price €108.29Original price €113.99Systeme zur Referenz auf Personen sind in den meisten deutschen Dialekten komplexer als im Standard. So werden in gut vernetzten dörflichen Sprechg...
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Save 5% Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €98.79Original price €103.99Edinburgh (now the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics), such as eLALME (the electronic version A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval En...
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Save 5% The Pocket Geordie English
Gemini Books Group LtdCurrent price €13.29Original price €13.99From 'Howay, man!' to 'Haddaway!' become fluent in Geordie. Geordie, spoken in Newcastle and in Tyneside on the banks of the river Tyne in the coun...
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Save 5% The Pluricentricity Debate: On Austrian German and other Germanic Standard Varieties
Stefan DollingerCurrent price €64.59Original price €67.99This book unpacks a 30-year debate about the pluricentricity of German. It examines the concept of pluricentricity, an idea implicit to the study o...
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Save 5% The Pluricentricity Debate: On Austrian German and other Germanic Standard Varieties
Stefan DollingerCurrent price €26.13Original price €27.50This book unpacks a 30-year debate about the pluricentricity of German. It examines the concept of pluricentricity, an idea implicit to the study o...
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Save 5% Sociolinguistic Approaches to Sibilant Variation in Spanish
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.64Original price €46.99Social processes and the nature of language variation have driven sibilant variation across the Spanish-speaking world. This book explores the curr...
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Save 5% Dialect Contact: From Speaker to Community-Based Perspectives
Georgetown University PressCurrent price €127.29Original price €133.99New research expands the linguistic understanding of dialect contact in specific communities and individuals Dialect contact occurs whenever speak...
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Save 5% Dialect Contact: From Speaker to Community-Based Perspectives
Georgetown University PressCurrent price €48.44Original price €50.99New research expands the linguistic understanding of dialect contact in specific communities and individuals Dialect contact occurs whenever speak...
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Save 5% English in the Nordic Countries: Connections, Tensions, and Everyday Realities
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €43.69Original price €45.99People in the Nordic states Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland rank as among the most proficient speakers of English in the world. In ...
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Save 5% Expanding Variationist Sociolinguistic Research in Varieties of German
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €136.79Original price €143.99This collection provides a broad account of variationist sociolinguistic research on varieties of German, with the goals to encourage greater geoli...
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Save 15% Chinese Proverbs Illustrated
James TrappCurrent price €33.14Original price €38.99The elegant pen-strokes and visual harmony of Chinese writing have long been admired in the west. Classical Chinese calligraphy is a popular and va...
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Save 5% Standard Basque and Its Dialects
Koldo ZuazoCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99The origins of Basque dialects, a highly disputed area of research in Basque studies, are examined. The author, the foremost expert on Basque diale...
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Save 10% Sounds & Furies: The Love-Hate Relationship between Women and Slang
Jonathon GreenCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99'In terms of a non-fiction account of how historical and contemporary language has been shaped by women, I really recommend lexicographer Jonathon ...
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