Dialect, slang and jargon

A spirited and engaging linguistic and social re-imagination of the role and nature of clichés in communication and interaction.

This book examines the interlinked history of Parisian speech and the Parisian population.

Explores the evolution of emoji, how people use them, and what they tell us about the technology-enhanced state of modern society.

A conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: that creole languages share a particular history entailing adults rapidly acquiring a language usually under conditions of subordination, but that structurally they are indistinguishable from other languages.

This volume explores the central role of language across all aspects of public and private life in Africa.

This book studies worldwide variation in Spanish, and the origins and history of this variation.

Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies.

Heller and McElhinny reinterpret sociolinguistics for the twenty-first century with an original approach to the study of language that is situated in the political and economic contexts of colonialism and capitalism.

This Element introduces Kongish as a translingual and multimodal urban dialect emerging in Hong Kong in recent years.

This present book studies from a dialectological perspective various African Arabic varieties, such as Maghreb Arabic, Bongor Arabic, Juba Arabic and Logori Arabic.

In what ways can dialectologists and language typologists profit from each others' work when looking across the fence?

The media frenzy surrounding the 1996 resolution by the Oakland School Board brought public attention to the term "e;Ebonics"e;, however the idea remains a mystery to most.

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

■ Französischer Geist und europäische Kultur■ Der Klang der Sprache■ Bildnis eines Ritters■ Wandlungen der Tugend■ Tapferkeit■ Stolzes altes Frankreich■ Douceur■ Gentillesse und Noblesse■ Courtoisie■ Politesse■ Galanterie und Honnêteté■ Was ist Esprit?

This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin.

The dimensions of time and space fundamentally cause and shape the variability of all human language.

The present volume contains revised versions of selected papers from the general sessions of ICHL 9.

This timely volume constitutes the first book-length account of implicit as well as explicit language attitudes.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Sprachgeschichte 4.

This book is a 'must read' for those who are looking for fresh perspectives on the process of creolization of language.

This book, first published in 1984, presents a series of analysis of colloquial spoken language, to illustrate some of the variety of phonological features of British English.

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This re-issue of Julian Franklyn's classic dictionary not only defines these expressions but also explains their origin and history.

This work investigates the syntax of the higher portion of the functional structure of the clause using comparative data from hundreds of Northern Italian dialects.

Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles aims to introduce the reader to the exciting and important field of pidgin and creole studies.

Drop the textbook formality and chat with the locals in France's everyday language-from common words for meeting and greeting to colorful insults.

Die Sennrin auf der Alm,die kocht sich a Muas,und hat sie koan Löffl,dann rührt s' mit dem Fuaß.

In diesem Buch wird der sprachliche Ausdruck von statischen und dynamischen Raumrelationen untersucht.

This introduction to the linguistic study of pidgin and creole languages is clearly designed as an introductory course book.

This book is the first full-scale scientific study of East Anglian English.

Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech.