Dialekt, slang & jargong

Hur låter skånska? Varför låter göteborgare goa och glada? Varför finns det över huvud taget dialekter? Och varför säger man i vissa delar av Sverige ett apelsin, när det borde heta en apelsin. Fredrik Lindströms 100 svenska dialekter är boken som...

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Det här är en ordbok som visar äldre blekingska - sådana ord och uttryck som farfar eller mormor känner bäst igen och kanske fortfarande använder. Här finns tre möjligheter att hitta ett ord. Man kan antingen leta bland normaliserade former, dvs. ...

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Från abbedánk till övårvaolsvär. I ordboken Skånska dialektord hittar du äldre skånska dialektord. Den berättar vad orden betyder, hur de uttalas och vad de har för normaliserad svensk form. Man kan också ta reda på hur en viss betydelse kan uttry...

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Allt färre människor i Sverige talar dialekt. Det beror främst på att dialekterna jämnats ut och allt mer kommit att likna standardsvenskan. I större städers omnejd är det också tydligt att drag, som tidigare betraktats som urbana, sprider sig. In...

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As a serious study of the nuances of the English language as spoken in Ireland, this book is as useful as tits on a bull. On the other hand, if youd like to have a baldy of understanding the various expressions you regularly hear around Ireland, y...

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ADOPT THE LANGUAGE OF LEADERS Whether youre new to the world or work, or you just want to brush up on your leadership lingo, Talk More. Say Less. Get Ahead. will have you leaping up the strategic staircase to Inspiration Boulevard in no time! Conv...

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Remade in France: Anglicisms in the Lexicon and Morphology of French chronicles the current status of French Anglicisms, a popular topic in the history of the French language and a compelling example of the influence of global English. The abundan...

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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of Spanish dialects, opening new avenues of theoretical and empirical discussion. The volume focuses on both European and American varieties of Spanish, addressing several syntac...

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In this dictionary, John Ayto explores the range and development of rhyming slang during its 150 year history, from traditional Cockney rhyming slang to the popney rhyming slang of today. The entries are arranged in subject areas, such as clothing...

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This book is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean. It revises the common view that literary dialect in the Caribbean was a relatively modern twentieth-century phenomenon, and explores both...

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Using the Principles and Parameters framework, Henry analyses various syntactic constructions in Belfast English, and compares them with their Standard English counterparts to gain insight into both English syntax and general syntactic theory. The...

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The Michif language - spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada - is considered an "impossible language" since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammatic...

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The decision by the Oakland, California school board to declare "Ebonics" as the official language of their African-American students unleashed a firestorm of controversy with overtly racial overtones. While the vast majority of linguists were cau...

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This work investigates the syntax of the higher portion of the functional structure of the clause using comparative data from hundreds of Northern Italian dialects. The area contains dialects that are different in most ways yet homogenous syntacti...

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This title digs deep into forgotten corners of the dictionary, gathering both the most spectacular old and the most impressive new words. The result is more than 400 prime specimens with pronunciations, defined in a conversational style.

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Do you "know" that posh comes from an acronym meaning "port out, starboard home"? That "the whole nine yards" comes from (pick one) the length of a WWII gunner's belt; the amount of fabric needed to make a kilt; a sarcastic football expression? Th...

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Eating Your Words will give layperson's definitions of essential words that foodies and non-foodies alike would encounter in their daily lives - reading a menu (or a restaurant review), shopping in the grocery store, in general press about health ...

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More than 600 slang terms, straight from the smoke-filled rooms of political speech, highlight this glorious guide to one of the more colorful corners of American English.

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The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang illuminates a rich and colorful segment of our language. Readers will find informative entries on slang terms such as "Beltway bandit" and "boondoggle," "angry white male" and "leg treasurer," "jui...

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Slang, writes Michael Adams, is poetry on the down low, and sometimes lowdown poetry on the down low, but rarely, if ever, merely lowdown. It is the poetry of everyday speech, the people's poetry, and it deserves attention as language playing on t...

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Nancy C. Dorian's examination of the fisherfolk Gaelic spoken in a Highland Scottish village offers a number of explanations for delayed recogntion of linguistic variation unrelated to social class or other social sub-groups.

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A historical record of New Zealand English words and phrases.

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In this study, Krishnaswamy and Burde examine how the English used by Indians has changed - and is still changing - over the last two centuries, evolving into the complex and highly diverse forms which it takes today.

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The world-wide spread of English is unprecedented. No other language in history has been used by more people in more places than English is used today. Accompanying this spread, however, there has also been a diversification of the forms of Englis...

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This is the first systematic attempt to trace the beginnings of Modern Literary Yiddish. It examines hitherto neglected Yiddish books from the late eighteenth century in order to analyse the linguistic changes manifest in both the transition and s...

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The International Corpus of English is unique in its assembly of parallel collections of samples of spoken and written English from over fifteen English-speaking countries. The book explains the design of the ICE collections and the software and a...

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Diachronic Prototype Semantics is concerned with the theory of explanation of changes in word meaning. The author demonstrates the explanatory value of the prototype model of meaning, in which the distinction between central and peripheral senses ...

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There are some 6,500 different languages in the world; they belong to around 250 distinct families and conform to numerous grammatical types. This book investigates why diversity arose, how it relates to the origins and evolution of language and c...

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