Dialect, slang and jargon

Because developments in informal logic have been based, for the most part, on idealized and abstract models, the tools available for argument analysis are not easily adapted to the needs of everyday argumentation.

The contributors to this volume cover the international range of scholarship in the field of Historical Linguistics, as well as some of its major themes.

From abdabs to zit From pillock (14th century) to couch potato (20th century) From She'll be apples (Australia) to the pits (USA) This new collection brings together some 5,000 contemporary slang expressions originating in all parts of the English-speaking world.

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.

Este libro reune contribuciones de destacados investigadores de la linguistica hispanica para ofrecer un panorama integral de los castellanos del Peru, incluidos algunos que han sido tradicionalmente objeto de discriminacion, como el castellano andino, el amazonico y el afroperuano.

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

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

We communicate through the spoken and written word and language has evolved over the centuries.

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

The first book to use techniques of linguistic analysis to examine the construction of diverse white identities.

For thirty years Jonathon Green has been collecting slang the indefinable language of the gutter, the brothel, the jail, the barroom producing a succession of dictionaries, most recently the three-volume Green's Dictionary of Slang, that have been recognised as the most comprehensive and authoritative ever compiled.

This volume collects original theoretical work on the syntax and morphology of Italian and a wide range of Italian dialects.

This collection will appeal to everyone who has ever wondered about the origin of phrases like "e;all part of life's rich pattern"e; and "e;long time no see"e;.

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.

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.

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

Code-Choice and Identity Construction on Stage challenges the general assumption that language is only one of the codes employed in a theatrical performance; Sirkku Aaltonen changes the perspective to the audience, foregrounding the chosen language variety as a trigger for their reactions.

In diesem Band werden mit dem "Wörterbuch deutscher Geheimsprachen.

A groundbreaking account of the linguistic features of four English dialects and their wider implications for English''s development.

This collection brings together contributions from both leading and emerging scholars in one comprehensive volume to showcase the richness of linguistic approaches to the study of pop culture and their potential to inform linguistic theory building and analytical frameworks.

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

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

The first of its kind, this book analyses the origin, diversity, and geographic distribution of a range of Spanish words.

This volume seeks to extend and expand our current understanding of the processes of language standardization, drawing on both quantitative and qualitative approaches to examine how linguistic variation plays out in various ways in everyday life in Denmark.

This volume brings together research on panel studies with the aim of providing a coherent empirical and theoretical knowledge-base for examining the impact of maturation and lifespan-specific effects on linguistic malleability in the post-adolescent speaker.

This set reissues important selected works by Eric Partridge, covering the period from 1933 to 1968.

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.

This book unpacks a 30-year debate about the pluricentricity of German.

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.

This book draws on a framework of enregisterment and indexicality to chart the ways in which the Yorkshire dialect came to be associated with particular linguistic repertoires and social stereotypes from the nineteenth century through to today.

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

An insightful study that proposes a unified theory of speech through which conflicting ideas about language might be understood.

This book presents and analyzes various features of the morphosyntax of Borgomanerese, a Gallo-Italic dialect spoken in the town of Borgomanero, in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy.

Este libro reune contribuciones de destacados investigadores de la linguistica hispanica para ofrecer un panorama integral de los castellanos del Peru, incluidos algunos que han sido tradicionalmente objeto de discriminacion, como el castellano andino, el amazonico y el afroperuano.

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

The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics most directly concerned with language change as well as past language states.

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

This pioneering study highlights the importance in linguistic communication of discourse markers, a previously neglected area of research.

With more than 7,000 definitions, this book provides a definitive guide to the use of slang today.

This collection consists of 15 articles by an international group of linguists and 7 essays by the editors, tackling a broad range of issues and representing some of the most authoritative work in English dialect grammar.

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

'In terms of a non-fiction account of how historical and contemporary language has been shaped by women, I really recommend lexicographer Jonathon Green's Sounds and Furies'ELEY WILIAMS, author of The Liar's Dictionary'When it comes to distaff dirtiness, mainstream males such as Dickens and Dekker make easy pickings, but Green finds the greatest treasures when he mudlarks on the margins.

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