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Drinking a Hefeweizen at a Biergarten...Dancing at Berlin's hottest club...Cheering for the local soccer team at the Stadion...Drop the textbook formality and chat with the locals …

Another dialect exhaustively studied by William J. Gedney is Lungming, a Tai dialect spoken in and around the town of Lungming, in Kwangsi, China. In addition to compiling the …

Careful writers and speakers agree that cliches are generally to be avoided. However, nearly all of us continue to use them. Why do they persist in our language?In It's Been Said …

This collection of papers by major scholars of creole and Afro-American linguistics is drawn from research first presented at an International Round Table of Africanisms in …

Sprachen haben in der Regel ein langes Leben, die niederdeutsche ist 1000 Jahre alt. Der Autor untersucht die vielfaltigen, von den Zeitgenossen kaum wahrgenommenen Veranderungen, …

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 8th International Conference of Middle English, held in Spain at the University of Murcia in 2013. The contributions …

This fascinating record of how English is spoken in England is now being reprinted. Over 400 maps detail differences in phonology, lexicon, morphology and syntax. The Atlas …

Discourse markers constitute an important part of linguistic communication, and research on this phenomenon has been a thriving field of study over the past three decades. However, …

The concept of linguistic justice, as applied to minoritized languages, sheds light upon the way in which minoritized communities conduct their lives in less than optimal …

Fifty Years Among the New Words looks at the new words of the past five decades, providing a fascinating demonstration of the change in word patterns and social norms that has …

While it would be impossible to capture all the variety and richness of language of the country where just about everyone has the gift of the gab and where that gift can be …