Dialect, slang and jargon

An exploration of the controversies surrounding Singlish and how they illuminate wider issues of identity and language in the context of globalization.

A comprehensive linguistic analysis of Mexican American English, introducing a model of the language shift that results within immigrant groups.

This book is not only intended for a general readership, but also for military researchers and historians who often find that they get lost in the huge and arcane raft of terminology employed by the army during the conflict.

With more than 7,000 definitions, this book provides a definitive guide to the use of slang today.

Immigrant Englishes Around the World is a collection that explores the varieties of English that emerge when speakers whose native languages are not English immigrate to an English-speaking country.

Immigrant Englishes Around the World is a collection that explores the varieties of English that emerge when speakers whose native languages are not English immigrate to an English-speaking country.

This book draws on a framework of enregisterment and indexicality to chart the ways in which the Yorkshire dialect came to be associated with particular linguistic repertoires and social stereotypes from the nineteenth century through to today.

Al llarg d'aquestes pàgines es descriuen escenes de vida que prenen com a protagonista una paraula concreta, generalment ebrenca o particular d'alguna altra contrada.