Dialect, slang and jargon

This 2005 book explores the role of British dialects in the genesis and subsequent history of postcolonial varieties of English.

Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics.

Tradition, community, and pride are fundamental aspects of the history of Appalachia, and the language of the region is a living testament to its rich heritage.

Examines the current status, history and features of Canadian English, focusing on the ''standard'' variety heard across the country today.

Richard Kayne’s introduction to this volume stresses that comparative work on the syntax of very closely related languages and dialects is a research tool promising to provide both a broad understanding of parameters at their finest-grained and an approach to the question of the minimal units of syntactic variation.

Southern Min refers to a group of Chinese dialects spoken mainly in Southeast China and Taiwan.

Based on analysis of more than 1,000 languages, this volume reconstructs more than 500 processes of grammatical change in the languages of the world.

This volume presents a study of the phenomenon of dialect levelling, the process of the reduction of structural variation.

The Shetland tongue has, in many ways, been blessed by its isolation, making it both unmistakable and unlike anything else you will hear on the British Isles.

Spanglish-a hybrid of Spanish and English-is intricately interwoven with the history and culture of Latinos, the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States.

In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English "e;Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap.

The Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, which is the major forum for the presentation of work in progress in the field of diachronic linguistics, took place at the University of Manchester in August 1995.

This collection will appeal to everyone who has ever wondered about the origin of phrases like "e;all part of life's rich pattern"e; and "e;long time no see"e;.

Are you a beaver cleaver or the office bike?

Erst seit den beginnenden 1980er Jahren befasst sich die Sprachwissenschaft mit der Schrift als autonomem Teilsystem des Sprachsystems.

An inventory of present-day English dialect, slang and colloquialisms drawn from a prestigious nationwide survey.

Is that really how people say that?

This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of English slang and cant.

The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang offers the ultimate record of modern, post WW2 American Slang.

This book presents an account of phonological data related to the study of sonorants in Scottish Standard English (SSE), as compared with Received Pronunciation (RP).

This book argues that, contrary to popular opinion, dialects do have a grammar, and that ''non standard'' language often makes more sense.

War Kleist ein philosophischer Dichter?

Explores how the text and principles of the UNCITRAL Model Arbitration Law are implemented, or not, in key Asian jurisdictions.

This is a selection of papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held August 9-13, 1999, at the University of British Columbia.

Through a detailed examination of proverbs related to money, this book offers a comprehensive critique of the prevailing everyday ideologies and discourses on money and paves the way toward establishing a new set of proverbs more conducive to financial equality and human well-being.

Why did a rural dialect from the heart of Norwegian farm country win a national dialect popularity contest?

The Great Patriotic War (GPW) of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany, known in the West as the Eastern Front of WWII, continues to attract a number of military historians from different countries around the world.

Die Begriffe ‚Nähe‘ und ‚Distanz‘ bezeichnen konzeptionelle Eigenschaften von Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit.

Remade in France: Anglicisms in the Lexicon and Morphology of French chronicles the current status of French Anglicisms, a popular topic in the history of the French language and a compelling example of the influence of global English.

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The Languages and Linguistics of Europe: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world.

This collection brings together contributions from both leading and emerging scholars in one comprehensive volume to showcase the richness of linguistic approaches to the study of pop culture and their potential to inform linguistic theory building and analytical frameworks.

Slang is often seen as a lesser form of language, one that is simply not as meaningful or important as its 'regular' counterpart.

This volume collects original theoretical work on the syntax and morphology of Italian and a wide range of Italian dialects.

This collection consists of 15 articles by an international group of linguists and 7 essays by the editors, tackling a broad range of issues and representing some of the most authoritative work in English dialect grammar.