Dialect, slang and jargon

What is a dialect?

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

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

Is that really how people say that?

The origins of Basque dialects, a highly disputed area of research in Basque studies, are examined.

Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang.

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

English Vocabulary Today: Into the 21st Century offers an innovative perspective on the ways in which contemporary English language vocabulary continues to adapt and grow in light of emerging technologies and ideas.

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

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

George Orwell coined the term 'Newspeak' for his novel 1984, the purpose of which was designed to shrink vocabularies and eliminate subtlety and nuance.

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

Studies in Language and LinguisticsGeneral Editors- Geoffrey Leech, Department of Modern English Language, Lancaster University and Jenny Thomas, School of English and Linguistics, University of Wales, BangorBroad-ranging and authoritative, Studies in Language and Linguistics is an occasional seriesincorporating major new work in all areas of linguistics.

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

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

Global English Slang brings together nineteen key international experts and provides a timely and essential overview of English slang around the world today.

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

A comprehensive linguistic analysis of Mexican American English, introducing a model of the language shift that results within immigrant groups.

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.

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 book examines diachronic change and diversity in the morphosyntax of Romance varieties spoken in Italy.

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This volume brings together researchers whose analysis and insights provide a comprehensive and up-to-date account of Singapore's rich linguistic diversity.

Introducing a range of new methods and insights for analysing discourse-pragmatic variation and change, this volume aims to inform future studies in the field.

From the middle of the twentieth century, dozens of medievalists and other performers have recorded early English.

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.

Trans(in)fusion is a highly original book that tries to radicalize our ways of 'critical thinking' across disciplines.

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 pioneering work explores epigraphic evidence for the development of English before the Anglo-Saxon period, bringing together linguistic, historical and archaeological perspectives on early inscriptions, making them more accessible to a wider audience.

First published in 1933, this book explores both contemporary and historical slang, focusing on the characteristics and quirks of the English and American 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.

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 innovative text is the first to map regional grammatical variation in written Standard American English.

Examines the ways language has changed in the twentieth century.

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

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

The language of crime has a long and venerable history - in fact, the first collection of words specifically used by criminals, Hye-Way to the Spittel House, dates from as early as 1531.

This monograph takes up recent advances in social network methods in sociology, together with data on economic segregation, in order to build a quantitative analysis of the class and network effects implicated in vowel change in a Southern American city.

Variedades de la lengua espanola ofrece un panorama general de la variacion dialectal y sociolinguistica en el espacio hispanohablante, presentado por uno de los mas prestigiosos expertos en la materia.

This major 2001 work explores the development of creoles and other new languages.

The second volume of Julie Coleman's entertaining and revealing history of the recording and uses of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785 to 1858, and explores their manifestations in the United States of America and Australia.

First published in 1986, the purpose of this dictionary is to clarify the technology behind nuclear jargon.

First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds.

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

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.

Is that really how people say that?