Dialect, Slang & Jargon
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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English in the Nordic Countries: Connections, Tensions, and Everyday Realities
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €41.39Original 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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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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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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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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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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Pidgins and Creoles
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €963.29Original price €1,013.99This new four volume collection, Pidgins and Creoles, will showcase the major areas of research and their achievements in this multidisciplinary fi...
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Relativization in Ojibwe
Michael D. SullivanCurrent price €72.89Original price €80.99In Relativization in Ojibwe, Michael D. Sullivan Sr. compares varieties of the Ojibwe language and establishes subdialect groupings for Southwester...
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Humor 2.0: How the Internet Changed Humor
Salvatore AttardoCurrent price €30.88Original price €32.50The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to su...
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Will I Ever Pee Alone Again?: Poems for mums
Emma ConwayCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99'Please stop staring at me whilst I'm on the loo I simply want a peaceful poo.'In this uplifting, funny and giftable collection of poems, general f...
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A Dictionary of Hiberno English
Terence Patrick DolanCurrent price €26.13Original price €27.50The Dictionary of Hiberno-English is the leading reference book on Hiberno-English the form of English commonly spoken in Ireland. It connects the...
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An English to Scottish Traveller Dialect List
Robert DawsonCurrent price €10.79Original price €11.99A response to the previous Scottish Traveller Dialects, this time giving the English and the word's translation into Nawken Cant.
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Vernacular Chinese-Character Manuscripts from East and Southeast Asia
De GruyterCurrent price €94.49Original price €104.99This collection brings together studies on vernacular manuscripts in regional Chinese dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien (South Fujian dialect)...
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The Phonology of Maaloula Aramaic
Ghattas EidCurrent price €43.69Original price €45.99The book describes the sound system of Maaloula Aramaic, an under-researched and endangered Western Neo-Aramaic dialect. It provides solutions to p...
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More Spanish Slanguage: A Fun Visual Guide to Spanish Terms and Phrases
Mike EllisCurrent price €12.59Original price €13.99Current price €12.59Original price €13.99Save 10% -
The Verbal Aspect Integral to the Perfect and Pluperfect Tense-Forms in the Pauline Corpus: A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis
James E. SedlacekCurrent price €79.19Original price €87.99This book argues that the verbal aspect of the Greek Perfect is complex, involving not one but two aspects, where the perfective applies to events ...
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