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It's All Greek: Borrowed Words and their Histories (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Did you know that marmalade, pirate, sketch and purse trace their linguistic origins back to the Athens of 500 bce? This book offers a word-by-word look at the influence of Greek on everyday words in English, telling the stories behind their etymological developments.
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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries: Volume 1: 1567-1784 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This is the first volume in a complete history of the documentation of English cant and slang from 1567 to the present. It gives unparalleled... Læs mere
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The The Criminal Alphabet: An A-Z of Prison Slang (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Print on Demand (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
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Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)The newest volume in David Crystal's pentalogy of the English language, focusing on the subtleties of pronunciation.
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American Slang Dictionary, Fourth Edition (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Helps to learn the lingo of American English. This dictionary offers you the definitions of more than 12,000 slang and informal expressions from various sources,... Læs mere
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The Handbook of Dialectology (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and offers a critical discussion of the past, present and future development of the area.
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The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)As much a travel book as a linguistic study, this book goes beyond grammar and vocabulary; more importantly, this book is about the people of... Læs mere
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Lost For Words (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)From Today programme presenter and national treasure John Humphrys, the bestselling cry in book form for better English and an exposé of the political uses and abuses of language.
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The The First English Dictionary of Slang 1699 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)The first work dedicated solely to the subject of slang words and their meanings, this book is a lost gem originally intended to educate the polite London classes in the parlance of thieves and ruffians, should they be so unlucky as to wander into the ‘wrong’ parts of town.
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Michigan German in Frankenmuth: Variation and Change in an East Franconian Dialect (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)A phonological, grammatical, and lexical description of a German-American dialect, Michigan Frankenmuth.
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Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 3: Cognitive and Cultural Factors (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life history of these developments, from triggering events to driving forces and endpoints.
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Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 1: Internal Factors (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This book develops the general principles of linguistic change that form the foundations of historical linguistics, dialectology and sociolinguistics.
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