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The English language in the Renaissance was in many ways a collection of competing Englishes. Paula Blank investigates the representation of alternative vernaculars - the dialects …

What do 'bimbo,' 'glitch,' 'savvy,' and 'shtick' all have in common? They are all expressions used in informal American English that have been taken from other languages. This …

Creolistics, an important branch of language contact theory and sociolinguistics, is one of the most socially engaged areas of language study today. Pidgin and Creole Linguistics …

First published in 1980, this book questions many of the assumptions that have accumulated around the subject of intonation as it occurs in spontaneous speech, as well as texts …

Sprachliche Kommunikation heißt gemeinhin, dass Menschen mittels konventionalisierter Symbolfolgen Informationen austauschen. Aber wie weit reicht der Symbolbegriff, was sind …

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Bonner und solche, die es werden wollen, können aufatmen: Hier ist er endlich, der erste Ratgeber zur bönnschen Mundart in Buchform! In 7 Kapiteln werden die Feinheiten des …

Doublespeak is the language of non-responsibility, carefully constructed to appear to communicate when it fact it doesn't. In this lively and eye-opening expose, originally …

This study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis - relexification, reanalysis and direct levelling - processes which the author demonstrates play a …