Dialect, Slang & Jargon
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The Sociopragmatics of Attitude Datives in Levantine Arabic
Youssef A. HaddadCurrent price €28.49Original price €29.99This book analyses data from a variety of sources, including soap operas, movies, plays, talk shows and other audiovisual material, to examine atti...
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West Midlands English: Birmingham and the Black Country
Esther AspreyCurrent price €30.44Original price €34.99This book focuses on the varieties of Birmingham and the industrial heartland of the Black Country. This volume focuses on the closely allied yet d...
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Hong Kong English
Brian H.S. ChanCurrent price €30.44Original price €34.99This 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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Newfoundland and Labrador English
Sandra ClarkeCurrent price €30.44Original price €34.99This book is the first full-length volume to offer a comprehensive introduction to the English spoken in Britain's oldest overseas colony, and, sin...
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The New Cockney: New Ethnicities and Adolescent Speech in the Traditional East End of London
S. FoxCurrent price €48.71Original price €55.99The New Cockney provides a sociolinguistic account of speech variation among adolescents in the 'traditional' East End of London. Embedded in its s...
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A Winning Dialect: Reinventing Linguistic Tradition in Rural Norway
Thea R. StrandCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99Why did a rural dialect from the heart of Norwegian farm country win a national dialect popularity contest? What were the effects of this win, and ...
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Blowing on Yogurt and Other Egyptian Arabic Expressions: Illi in Fifty Idioms
Mona Kamel HassanCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99A lively and informative collection of fifty common Egyptian colloquial expressions and proverbs, this book is must for learners of Arabic, languag...
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Digital Flux, Linguistic Justice and Minoritized Languages
De GruyterCurrent price €81.69Original price €85.99The concept of linguistic justice, as applied to minoritized languages, sheds light upon the way in which minoritized communities conduct their li...
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The Little Book of Profanities: Know your Sh*ts from your F*cks
Orange Hippo!Current price €9.34Original price €10.99Keep your swearing as fresh as a f*cking daisy with The Little Book of Profanities. There's nothing better than that perfect swear word. In a battl...
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The Syntactic Variation of Spanish Dialects
Oxford University Press IncCurrent price €49.49Original price €54.99This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of the dialects of Spanish. More precisely, it covers Spanish theoretical synt...
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Of Mermaids and Others: An Introduction to the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Cary A. ShayCurrent price €75.68Original price €86.99This volume is a critical introduction to the poetry of Irish writer Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. Writing poetry exclusively in Irish but allowing and over...
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Synchronic English Linguistics
Alexander BergsCurrent price €22.61Original price €25.99This book offers a concise introduction to synchronic English linguistics. Following an introduction to language and linguistics as such, it provid...
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Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Essays on Gaelic Poetry and Song
Virginia BlankenhornCurrent price €64.37Original price €73.99Since World War I, the self-contained communities of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, characterised by collaborative effort and a robust sense of communal...
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The Dialect of Polish Spoken in Cruz Machado, Paraná: A Portrait of a Language Apart
Karolina J. ZarembaCurrent price €59.15Original price €67.99The Polish language was brought to Brazil by Polish-speaking peasants who came to the New World in the late 19th and early 20th century. Since the...
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Trends in Phonetics and Phonology: Studies from German-speaking Europe
Peter Lang AG Internationaler Verlag der WissenschaftenCurrent price €66.11Original price €75.99This volume was inspired by the 9th edition of the Phonetik & Phonologie conference, held in Zurich in October 2013. It includes state of the a...
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Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
John AytoCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50What is it to 'cock a snook', where is the land of Nod, and who was first to go the extra mile? Find the answers to these questions (and many more!...
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It''s Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Clichés
Orin HargravesCurrent price €22.79Original price €23.99Careful writers and speakers agree that clichés are generally to be avoided. However, nearly all of us continue to use them. Why do they persist in...
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Remade in France: Anglicisms in the Lexicon and Morphology of French
Val^D'erie SaugeraCurrent price €96.89Original price €101.99Remade in France: Anglicisms in the Lexicon and Morphology of French chronicles the current status of French Anglicisms, a popular topic in the his...
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Humor 2.0: How the Internet Changed Humor
Salvatore AttardoCurrent price €81.77Original price €93.99The 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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Corpus Dialectology
John Benjamins Publishing CoCurrent price €88.73Original price €101.99Corpus Dialectology combines the fields of corpus linguistics and dialectological mapping. It concerns documentation of linguistic variation and ma...
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Mexican American English: Substrate Influence and the Birth of an Ethnolect
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €73.07Original price €83.99Responding to the need for a comprehensive treatment of Mexican American English and its varied influences across multiple generations, this volume...
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Colloquial English: Structure and Variation
Andrew RadfordCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50Drawing on vast amounts of new data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts, and the internet, this is a brilliant and original analysis of c...
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The UNCITRAL Model Law and Asian Arbitration Laws: Implementation and Comparisons
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €67.44Original price €70.99In the Asia-Pacific, thirty-eight jurisdictions have adopted the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration. This book looks at how...
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The Handbook of Dialectology
John Wiley and Sons LtdCurrent price €172.89Original price €181.99The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter...
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