Dialect, slang and jargon

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.

TAUCHEN SIE EIN IN DIE BUNTE VIELFALT DER TIROLER DIALEKTE!

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.

A brilliant analysis of colloquial English, both its syntax and its variations, using novel data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts and the internet.

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

Slang, writes Michael Adams, is poetry on the down low, and sometimes lowdown poetry on the down low, but rarely, if ever, merely lowdown.

This volume contains 22 of the 95 papers presented during ICHL 10.

The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English (WAVE) presents grammatical variation in spontaneous spoken English, mapping 235 features in 48 varieties of English (traditional dialects, high-contact mother tongue Englishes, and indiginized second-language Englishes) and 26 English-based Pidgins and Creoles in eight Anglophone world regions (Africa, Asia, Australia, British Isles, the Caribbean, North America, the Pacific, and the South Atlantic).

This is the second volume of the multi-volume set A Contemporary Grammar of British English Dialects.

What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him?

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

In its seven years on television, Buffy the Vampire Slayer earned critical acclaim and a massive cult following among teen viewers.

This volume focuses on the interface of different motivating factors that contribute to language change.

Destin Impérial est un ouvrage fragmenté, un projet systémique qui tient à engager toutes les puissances vives de la patrie de l’Afrique du sud-Sahara dans la lutte de reconquête de son unité macronationale, pour la maîtrise des mécanismes et sciences étatiques de pointe, des technologies, de l’intelligence artificielle, jusqu’aux lois ultimes de celles-ci.

Cross-linguistic studies on relative constructions in European languages are often centred on standard varieties as described in reference grammars.

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

First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon.

This volume contains a selection of 34 of the 96 papers presented at ICHL 1993, including several of the contributions to the workshop on Parameters and Typology organized jointly by Henning Andersen and David W.

This volume is an investigation and classification of dialects along the Wu and Jiang-Hwai Mandarin border in China's eastern Yangtze Valley.

Shape up your English with thousands of idiomsWhether you are a learner of English who is having difficulty understanding expressions in everyday speech or a native speaker who wants to expand your written or spoken range, you need a comprehensive reference for idioms, common phrases, and sayings of American English.

With an afterword by David Crystal and contributions from Philip Pullman, Jilly Cooper, Jeremy Vine and Meera Syal, all life is here.

Trudgill''s lively book traces the histories of dialects and accents, and defends the legitimacy of the language of ordinary people.

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world.

Paul Videsott examines the fate of the vernacular non-literary written language in Northern Italy from its first appearance up to 1525 (the year of publication of P.

"e;Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics.

The new edition of this classic text chronicles recent breakthrough developments in the field of American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences.

1827 erschien der erste Band des inzwischen legendären Bayerischen Wörterbuchs von Johann Andreas Schmeller.

Basic notions in the field of creole studies, including the category of “creole languages” itself, have been questioned in recent years: Can creoles be defined on structural or on purely sociohistorical grounds?

Are you a bit of a chairwarmer?