Dialect, slang and jargon

Namen umgeben uns allgegenwärtig.

Was verbirgt sich hinter "So allaa wie a Staa" und dem "Lutscher-Gnutscher-Gribbl"?

Obwohl kein gebürtiger Hesse wurde der Autor dank Radio und Fernsehen frühzeitig mit hessischem Liedgut (Rodgau Monotones), den Sorgen und Nöten der Familie Hesselbach und der Apfelweingastlichkeit des "Blauen Bocks" bekannt gemacht.

"Wie wäre es denn, wenn wir bei allem Hasten im Leben zwischendurch mal rasten und manchmal Wichtigeres sehen als nur Geschwindigkeit erhöhen?

Heiter-besinnlich nimmt Helmut Zöpfl in Versen und Prosa sowohl auf bayerisch als auch in Hochsprache Kleines und Großes, Bedeutendes und Unbedeutendes, Haupt- und Nebensächliches aufs Korn.

Im November 2016 jährt sich der Geburtstag Friedrich Stoltzes, des wohl bekanntesten Frankfurter Dichters zum 200sten Mal.

Wia da Scheff in Adam gmåcht håt und da Kain sein Bruada darschlågt.

Da Noah mid sein Schwüü.

Para los aficionados a los temas lingüísticos, los de comunicación en general y la interpersonal en particular, siempre habrá un sinnúmero de temas atractivos para ser estudiados o analizados desde puntos distintos.

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

This book focuses on contemporary sociolinguistic approaches to Spanish dialectology.

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.

Learn all the sign language slang you've always wanted to know with this fun English-ASL phrasebook for the modern era.

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En el transcurso de la historia del Hombre y las distintas culturas, el lenguaje siempre ha ejercido gran atracción como manifestación humana; incluso ha sido símbolo de dominio y superioridad social.

With more than 7,000 up-to-date phrases, this dictionary covers situations from talking to a doctor to ordering a meal, and helps learners communicate personal feelings, and make small talk.

Doublespeak is the language of non-responsibility, carefully constructed to appear to communicate when it fact it doesn't.

Recent years have seen a growing interest in linguistic phenomena whose formal manifestation and underlying licensing conditions represent the convergence of two or more areas of the grammar, an area of investigation particularly invigorated in recent generative research by developments such as phase theory (cf.

Do you "e;know"e; that posh comes from an acronym meaning "e;port out, starboard home"e;?

American Voices is a collection of short, readable descriptions of various American dialects, written by top researchers in the field.

This book is a detailed study of French-English linguistic borrowing in Prince Edward Island, Canada which argues for the centrality of lexical innovation to grammatical change.

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

This collection in honor of creolist Charlene Junko Sato (1951-1996) brings together contributions by leading specialists in pidgin-creole studies in three primary areas: Pidgin-Creole Genesis and Development; Attitudes and Education, and Creole Discourse and Literature.

This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997.

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.

This volume, based on presentations at a 1998 state of the art conference at the University of Georgia, critically examines African American English (AAE) socially, culturally, historically, and educationally.

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

Teenage talk is fascinating, though so far teenage language has not been given the attention in linguistic research that it merits.

This book offers an in-depth treatment of a variety of morpho-syntactic issues in Cape Verdean Creole (CVC) both from a descriptive and theoretical perspective.