Sökt på: slang slang
totalt 3 159 träffar
Common Phrases
In the tradition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Anguished English, Common Phrases is a fascinating guide to the origins of our language. Wonderful stories reveal the real meaning of …
Listening to the Past
Audio recordings of English are available from the first half of the twentieth century and thus complement the written data sources for the recent history of the language. This …
Jiddisch und die deutschen Mundarten
Das Jiddische als die Umgangssprache der Juden Deutschlands und der nach Osteuropa ausgewanderten deutschsprachigen Juden seit dem Mittelalter stellt einen Teil der deutschen …
Streidarei im Paradies
Emergence of Korean English
Emergence of Korean English explores the dynamic nature of emerging Korean English and its impact on Korean society, culture, and identity. This book challenges the negative …
Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics
Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered …
The Hakka Dialect
Originally published in 1973, this was the second in a series of dialect studies planned and produced by the Princeton Chinese Linguistics Project. Professor Hashimoto, Director of …
The Old English Complex Plant Names: A Linguistic Survey and a Catalogue
This investigation is a qualitative analysis of the etymological, the morphological and the semantic history of the Old English complex plant names as a lexical field, and an …
Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age
Edinburgh (now the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics), such as eLALME (the electronic version A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English), LAEME (A Linguistic Atlas …
Diachrony and Synchrony in English Corpus Linguistics
The volume brings together a selection of invited articles and papers presented at the 4th International CILC Conference held in Jaén, Spain, in March 2012. The chapters describe …
Leaves on the Line
In every walk of life, from relationships, to work, to politics, sport and the news, our everyday use of English harbours duplicities of meaning. We say 'I'm sorry' when we mean …
