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Dictionary of American Regional English
ISBN: 9780674205123 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 1200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Volume I of the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), published to wide acclaim in 1985, captured the wondrous variety and creativeness of American folk words and expressions and tickled the imagination of lovers of language around the world. Decades in preparation, the DARE corpus reflects the liveliness of English as it is spoken on America's main streets and country roads-the regional metaphors and similes passed along within homes and communities. Like its popular predecessor, Volume II is a treasury of vernacular Americanisms. In Virginia a... Volume I of the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), published to wide acclaim in 1985, captured the wondrous variety and ... |
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Dictionary of American Regional English
ISBN: 9780674205116 / Angielski / Twarda / 1985 / 1064 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This series capture the language spoken on America's main streets and country roads, words and phrases passed along within homes and communities, from east to west, north to south, childhood to old age. Built upon an unprecedented survey of spoken English across America and bolstered by extensive historical research, this series preserves the language with all its idioms and peculiarities.
This series capture the language spoken on America's main streets and country roads, words and phrases passed along within homes and communities, from...
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Dictionary of American Regional English
ISBN: 9780674205192 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 944 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Dip into the Dictionary of American Regional English and enter the rich, endlessly entertaining, ever-changing world of American speech. Learn what a Minnesota grandma is making when she fixes lefse, what a counterman in a Buffalo deli means by kimmelweck or a Hawaiian baker puts into a malassada. Find out what kids on the streets of New York are doing when they play Johnny-on-the-pony or off-the-point, what Southerners do when they use their tom walkers, what the folks in Oklahoma and Texas celebrate on Juneteenth and those in some... Dip into the Dictionary of American Regional English and enter the rich, endlessly entertaining, ever-changing world of American speech. Lea... |
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Dictionary of Jamaican English
ISBN: 9789766401276 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1967 and then revised as a second edition in 1980, this classic study has never before been available in a paperback edition. The method and plan of the dictionary are basically those of the Oxford English Dictionary, but oral sources have been extensively tapped in addition to detailed coverage of literature published in or about Jamaica since 1655.
The dictionary is a mine of information about the Caribbean and its dialects, about the history of English and its dialects, and about Creole languages and general linguistic... Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1967 and then revised as a second edition in 1980, this classic study has never before been avai...
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Jamaica Talk: Three Hundred Years of the English Language in Jamaica
ISBN: 9789766401702 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) First published in 1961, Jamaica Talk is a thorough study of the English spoken in Jamaica and, although intended for the general educated reader rather than the linguistic specialist, has a foundation of sound scholarship, which makes it an authoritative classic. The late Professor Cassidy was born and reared in Jamaica and collected most of the material for his book when he was attached to the University College of the West Indies as Fulbright research fellow. There are chapters on the composition of "Jamaica talk", on pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. The book is an invaluable...
First published in 1961, Jamaica Talk is a thorough study of the English spoken in Jamaica and, although intended for the general educated reader rath...
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