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Dialect Matters
Based on Peter Trudgill's weekly column in the Eastern Daily Press newspaper, this book has two overall messages. The first is that language is a fascinating and enjoyable …
The Criminal Alphabet
The ultimate guide to the criminal world through its slang - from insults to terms of respect, weapons to injuries, crimes to punishment'I have spent almost 33 of the last 53 years …
The Sociopragmatics of Attitude Datives in Levantine Arabic
Examines the social functions of attitude dative pronouns in four Arabic dialects Analysing data from a variety of sources, including soap operas, movies, plays, talk shows and …
Shorter Dictionary of Catch Phrases
An abridged version of Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Catch Phrases, concentrating on those phrases in current use in the English-speaking world. The rewritten entries are in an …
Estuary English as a Special Accent
Cockney Past and Present
Although Cockney can be considered to be one of the most important non-standard forms of English, there had been little to no scholarly attention on the dialect prior to William …
Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster who wrote Australia's first dictionary
The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to …
Germanic 'Auslautgesetze'
The overall interpretation of Old Germanic phonology and morphology has much to gain from the recent and revolutionary views that were developed in its 'mother' discipline, …
Lucian for our Times
Lucian of Samosata, the prolific Greek-speaking satirist of the 2nd century AD, left us a wide range of works ranging from harsh invective against cult-leaders and philosophers to …
Clerks, Wives and Historians
This volume comprises selected papers of SEM VI to VIII (Studientage Englisches Mittelalter), held at Jena, Bochum, and Zurich between 2004 and 2007. It presents a representative …