This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the latest tweet and explores why and how slang is used. Based on inside information from real live slang users as well as the best scholarly sources, this book is guaranteed to teach you some new words that you shouldn't use in polite company.

Written for students of linguistics, applied linguistics and speech therapy, this dictionary covers over 2,000 terms in phonetics and phonology. It is an informative and easy to use reference tool, covering a wide variety of topics.

Words and Minds takes a lively and accessible look at the evolution of language and how we use language in joint activities.

The Egyptians believed that the creator god Ptah brought the world into being by naming everything in it. Names had great power, and kings often over-wrote their own names on the monuments of earlier rulers. This book is about reading, writing and understanding ancient Egyptian names, epithets, titles and phrases.

Language and Power introduces the ways in which language intersects with the social and political expressions of power. It includes 'traditional' topics in the study of language and power, such as race, gender and class, but also covers the more recent themes in critical linguistics.

Orality in Written Texts provides a methodologically and theoretically innovative study of change in Irish English in the period 1700-1900. This book is key reading for advanced students and researchers of corpus linguistics, varieties of English, language change and historical linguistics.

This volume presents a selection of papers from the first international conference of the Irish Network in Formal Linguistics (INFL). INFL is well placed to attract expertise on both microvariation and the linguistics of the Celtic languages, and the volume reflects this expertise.