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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Converging Grammars: Constructions in Singapore English
Debra ZiegelerCurrent price €99.74Original price €104.99This volume provides a much-needed, critical overview of the field of constructions and construction grammar in the context of Singapore English, a...
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A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter
Andrew HuiCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and culturesAphorismsor philosophical short sayingsappear eve...
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North East Vernacular English Online
Michael PearceCurrent price €94.04Original price €98.99Drawing on thousands of naturalistic online interactions from Ready to Go, a popular football message board centred on North East England, North Ea...
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Unequal Englishes: The Politics of Englishes Today
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €88.34Original price €92.99This book proposes, examines and unpacks the notion of unequal Englishes as a way to understand English today. Unlike many studies on the pluraliza...
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Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance
Belinda EdmondsonCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Creole Noise is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean, from the late eighteenth century t...
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Pitmatic: Stories and the Talk of The North East Coalfield
Bill GriffithsCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99The last major mine in the North East region closed in 2005 and with it went a way of life. Through dialect words, humour, stories and songs Pitmat...
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Whare de yea belang?: A Dictionary of North East Dialect
Bill GriffithsCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Until the 20th century, dialect was a marker of economic, social and cultural change. We know that the North East maritime connections with the Dut...
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The Victorians and English Dialect: Philology, Fiction, and Folklore
Matthew TownendCurrent price €54.14Original price €56.99The Victorians and English Dialect tells the story of the Victorians' discovery of English dialect, and of the revaluation of local language that w...
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Sociolinguistics and Dialectological Studies in Indonesia
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €206.14Original price €216.99This book contains chapters which are classified into three major themes, namely Dialectology Studies in Indonesia, Sociolinguistics Issues in Java...
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A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter
Andrew HuiCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and culturesAphorismsor short philosophical sayingsappear eve...
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The Atlas of Unusual Languages: An exploration of language, people and geography
Collins BooksCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99The ideal gift for anyone interested in language, geography and people. We communicate through the spoken and written word and language h...
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Jackspeak: A guide to British Naval slang & usage
Rick JollyCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99From A1 to Zulu, the fully revised and updated third edition of Jackspeak is a comprehensive guide to the slang of the Royal Navy. Discover the hu...
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Spanish in Chicago
Kim PotowskiCurrent price €74.09Original price €77.99Spanish in Chicago is the first book-length study of Spanish in Chicago, where populations originating in both Mexico and Puerto Rico have lived in...
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Spanish in Chicago
Kim PotowskiCurrent price €30.88Original price €32.50Spanish in Chicago is the first book-length study of Spanish in Chicago, where populations originating in both Mexico and Puerto Rico have lived in...
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White Kids: Language, Race, and Styles of Youth Identity
Mary BucholtzCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99In White Kids, Mary Bucholtz investigates how white teenagers use language to display identities based on race and youth culture. Focusing on three...
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World Lexicon of Grammaticalization
Bernd HeineCurrent price €53.19Original price €55.99Extensively revised and updated, this second edition provides, in an A-Z format, an analysis of the most important generalizations that have been m...
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The Handbook of Persian Dialects and Dialectology
Springer Verlag SingaporeCurrent price €155.69Original price €172.99This innovative, investigative, and expansive handbook covers a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Persian and its many dialects ...
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The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English presents all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang an...
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Dirty Sign Language: Everyday Slang from ''What''s Up?'' to ''F*%# Off''
Allison OCurrent price €16.14Original price €16.99Current price €16.14Original price €16.99Save 5% -
Chinese Dialectology: A Historical and Social Overview
Rujie YouCurrent price €116.84Original price €122.99This book explores one of the richest dialect families in the world: Chinese dialects. It covers all aspects of Chinese dialectology, from descript...
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Identity and Dialect Performance: A Study of Communities and Dialects
Hugh ThomsonCurrent price €44.64Original price €46.99Identity and Dialect Performance discusses the relationship between identity and dialects. It starts from the assumption that the use of dialect is...
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