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How the Irish Invented Slang : The Secret Language of the Crossroads
Daniel Cassidy
Paperback - $32.95
In a series of lively essays, this pioneering book proves that US slang has its strongest wellsprings in nineteenth-century Irish America. "Jazz" and "poker," "sucker" and "scam" all derive from Irish. While demonstrating this, Daniel Cassidy simulta ...
Iambic Ideas : Essays on a Poetic Tradition from Archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire
Cavarzere Alberto
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Surprised in Translation :
Mary Ann Caws
Hardcover - $51.95
For Mary Ann Caws— noted translator of surrealist poetry— the most appealing translations are also the oddest; the unexpected, unpredictable, and unmimetic turns that translations take are an endless source of fascination and instruction. ...
Dialectology
J. K. Chambers
Paperback - $84.95
When first published in 1980, Dialectology broke new ground by giving an integrated account of the social and regional aspects of dialectology. In this updated edition, the authors offer new sections on dialectometry and mapping variability, as well ...
Language Development Through Content : America, After Independence
Anna Uhl Chamot
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Semiotics : The Basics
Daniel Chandler
Paperback - $40.95
This up-dated second edition provides a clear and concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language. With a revised introduction and glossary, extended index and suggestions for further reading, this new edi ...
Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language
Siobhan Chapman
Paperback - $54.95
This book is a unique and accessible reference guide to the work of eighty key figures who have played an important role in the development of ideas about language from antiquity to the twenty-first century. The entries are extensively cross referenc ...
Chinese Grammar : Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives
Hilary Chappell
Paperback - $174.95
This book melds historical and typological approaches in the examination of grammatical phenomena in order to show the extent to which both earlier stages of Chinese, as well as the modern dialects, differ from standard Mandarin. Each essay investiga ...