Dialect, slang and jargon

In 2014, the US marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the basis for the Johnson administration's escalation of American military involvement in Southeast Asia and war against North Vietnam.

A pioneering exploration of form, meaning, theme and function in African American slang, illustrated with thousands of contextual examples.

Careful writers and speakers agree that clichs are generally to be avoided.

Das Dorf Erp, 25 km südwestlich von Köln im ripuarischen Sprachraum gelegen, stand in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten immer wieder im Fokus der deutschen Sprachwissenschaft.

Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressions used or coined before 1914.

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.

The first study into how children acquire Creoles as their first language in the absence of a conventional language model.

Examines the ways language has changed in the twentieth century.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of the dialects of Spanish.

In Always On, Naomi S.

This brief monograph explores the historical motivations for two sets of phonological changes in some varieties of Romance: restructured voicing of intervocalic /p t k/, and palatalization of initial /l/ and /n/.

This volume describes the English and English Creole of Trinidad and Tobago.

An original volume focusing on British–American differences in the structure of words and sentences.

While it is accepted that the pronunciation of English shows wide regional differences, there is a marked tendency to under-estimate the extent of the variation in grammar that exists within the British Isles today.

This inter-disciplinary book is the first in an Irish context to address issues connected with the 'super-diversifying' of language and society engendered by recent and historical migrations.

Drawing on extensive field data, this groundbreaking work explores the development of the sound systems of Central Chadic languages.

This volume offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on three domains of grammatical variation in the British Isles.

With contributions from world-renowned researchers, this book delves into how to best describe the phenomena of mass-count distinction.

Linguistic Planets of Belief presents a way for people to notice, examine, and question the role language plays in identifying, recognizing, and understanding those around them.

This book brings together three perspectives on language and space that are quite well-researched within themselves, but which so far are lacking productive interconnections.

Von Mainz bis Worms dient »der Schambes«, der Klassiker unter der hiesigen Mundart-Literatur, dem stillen Amüsieren und regen Gebrauch: Der Ur-Rhoihesse – mithin der angesprochene Schambes (= rheinhessische Verball­hornung des Vornamens Jean-Baptiste) – kann seinen Schimpf-Wortschatz ergänzen, während die jüngere Generation endlich das Schennen (= Schimpfen) der Großeltern versteht.

Bedeutungswörterbücher des Deutschen ordnen die einzelnen Wörter traditionell alphabetisch an.

This volume contains revised and extended versions of a selection of the papers presented at “The Amsterdam Workshop on Language Contact and Creolization.

This book contains chapters which are classified into three major themes, namely Dialectology Studies in Indonesia, Sociolinguistics Issues in Java, and Meanings and Society.

This handbook aims at a state-of-the-art overview of both earlier and recent research into older, newer and emerging non-standard varieties (dialects, regiolects, sociolects, ethnolects, substandard varieties), transplanted varieties and daughter languages (mixed languages, creoles) of Dutch.