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This book provides an in-depth ethnographic analysis of the social functions of indirect complaints (ICs) and commiserative responses as they are used among speakers of American …

This audio recording, which accompanies the Luath Scots Language Learner book, conveys the authentic pronunciation, especially important to readers from outside Scotland. It is …

This book is the first to present a comprehensive linguistic study of Jersey Norman French. Drawing on a corpus of original data, it offers historical and dialectological …

This book provides crucial reading for students and researchers of world Englishes. It is an insightful and provocative study of the forms and functions of English in Asia, its …

This dictionary contains commonsense phonetic pronunciations for Creole and English, modern up-to-date entries, and a section on Creole proverbs.

Dive into the riotous world of 'The Foreign Book of Swear Words' by the ever-playful Immature Book Club. Expand your international naughty vocabulary as this cheeky guide teaches …

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 …

Have you ever wondered what phrases such as 'square meal', 'load of old codswallop', 'egg on your face' or 'in the limelight' mean? Where do they come from? Have you ever taken a …

This book examines the relationship between political identity and variation from a diachronic perspective, and how vernacular features could index political and ideological …