Results for 'vern'

158 results
  1. Wassup, My Nigga
    1. Hiram L. Smith

    Wassup, My Nigga

    The Hidden History of a Controversial Word

    Hiram L. Smith is the Ruth Everett Sierzega Chair in Linguistics at Bucknell University. He published the first historical study of "nigga" and is the first African American linguist to write a book on the word. His research interests span African American English, Afro-Hispanic creole languages, Spanish, and Pennsylvania Dutch.

    € 33,50
  2. South African Bird Names through Time, Language and Usage
    1. Adrian Koopman
    2. Eckhart Buchmann

    South African Bird Names through Time, Language and Usage

    This title offers comprehensive analysis of bird naming systems in southern Africa examining scientific nomenclature, vernacular names, and indigenous languages. Traces historical development and multilingual dynamics.

    € 214,95
  3. Multilingualism and Writing Practices in Defining Communities

    Multilingualism and Writing Practices in Defining Communities

    Italy in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

    Piera Molinelli & Chiara Ghezzi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy.

    € 151,95
  4. Cosmopolitan Memories, Vernacular Visions
    1. Daniel Pieper

    Cosmopolitan Memories, Vernacular Visions

    The Roots of Modern Korean

    This book traces the roots of modern Korean language and literacy through early school textbooks, revealing how competing visions of Korean identity emerged amid a collapsing monarchy, fragile independence, and growing colonization.

    € 103,95
  5. Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe

    Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe

    Education, Sociability, and Governance

    This multinational collection of essays challenges the traditional image of a monolingual Ancient Regime in Enlightenment Europe, both East and West.

    € 63,95
  6. Multilingualism in Southern Africa

    Multilingualism in Southern Africa

    Issues and Perspectives

    This collection showcases perspectives from established and emerging scholars on the contemporary landscape of multilingualism in Southern Africa. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars in multilingualism, sociolinguistics, language policies, language education, and African studies.

    € 63,95
  7. The Language of Early English Dialect Literature
    1. Alex Broadhead

    The Language of Early English Dialect Literature

    € 120,95
  8. North East Vernacular English Online
    1. Michael Pearce

    North East Vernacular English Online

    A comprehensive and up-to-date sociodialectological study of North East Vernacular English

    € 27,50
  9. Yorkshire Dialect in the Nineteenth Century
    1. Paul Cooper

    Yorkshire Dialect in the Nineteenth Century

    Enregisterment, Authenticity, and Identity

    This book draws on a framework of enregisterment and indexicality to chart the ways in which the Yorkshire dialect came to be associated with particular linguistic repertoires and social stereotypes from the nineteenth century through to today.

    € 63,95
  10. The Vernacular
    1. Hans Harder
    2. Nishat Zaidi
    3. Torsten Tschacher

    The Vernacular

    Three Essays on an Ambivalent Concept and its Uses in South Asia

    This book examines the validity of the notion of the ‘vernacular’ and the position of the so-called ‘vernaculars’ in colonial and postcolonial settings. It addresses recent formulations and debates regarding the status of regional languages of South Asia in relation to English.

    € 57,95
  11. Indian Modernities

    Indian Modernities

    Literary Cultures from the 18th to the 20th Century

    This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures from the 18th to 20th century. It brings together essays on writings in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and languages from Northeast India.

    € 56,95
  12. Yorkshire Dialect in the Nineteenth Century
    1. Paul Cooper

    Yorkshire Dialect in the Nineteenth Century

    Enregisterment, Authenticity, and Identity

    This book draws on a framework of enregisterment and indexicality to chart the ways in which the Yorkshire dialect came to be associated with particular linguistic repertoires and social stereotypes from the nineteenth century through to today.

    € 214,95