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These essays offer critiques of orthodox views on dialect and dialectology, and as such are designed both to complement standard introductory volumes on dialectology and to refine understanding of the term dialect.

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Written so that the ordinary writer and speaker of English can readily see the manipulations of language, this reference points out the alarmingly verbal atrocities used today. It is arranged alphabetically, like a dictionary, providing a compendium of frequently abused words and suggested alternates.

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This text is a reference source for those concerned with the changing status and vitality of the Welsh language and other minority languages in Europe. It provides a framework and a factual context in which to set such issues as language planning and policy formulation at local and national levels.

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"Why are you learning Zulu" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property, possession, and deprivation. Sanders combines eleme

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This volume is not the product of direct field-work but a gathering together, a sifting and an analysis of all the material available - whether previously collected by collectors of Romani song, or preserved whole or in fragments within literary or other texts.

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Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1972, this introductory text deals with human language and its relationship to other areas of human culture and behavior. Discussions include such diverse topics as the classification of languages, sound and grammar changes, reconstruction, and social and psychological factors involved in the history and development of language.

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Tells the story of what language is, how it works, and how it passes from generation to generation, even where historical accidents have made normal transmission almost impossible.

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The fourth edition of a highly acclaimed Dictionary of Contemporary Slang this is the definitive and indispensible guide to the use of slang today

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A richly entertaining exploration of the origins of the words that English has borrowed from other languages over its 1500-year history.

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A richly entertaining exploration of the origins of the words that English has borrowed from other languages over its 1500-year history.

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A new, beautifully illustrated hardback edition of the bestselling Etymologicon, published on its tenth anniversary.

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Provides the meaning and pronunciation of several love-related phrases in ten different languages, including Russian, French, and Japanese.