Dictionaries

This is the first volume in a complete history of the documentation of English cant and slang from 1567 to the present. It gives unparalleled insights into the early history of slang, the people who used it, and how and why it was recorded. Well over...

This dictionary provides a full and authoritative guide to the meanings of the terms, concepts, and theories employed in pragmatics. Pragmatics is a central subject in linguistics and philosophy and an increasingly important topic in fields such as...

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Completely redesigned and rewritten, the second edition of Pocket Oxford American Dictionary combines its highly popular packaging with a dramatic revision of the copy, with completely reworded entries throughout. With more than 140,000 words, phrases,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877796411Author Merriam-WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Merriam Webster,U.S.Publisher Merriam Webster,U.S.

The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518-1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a...

The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518 1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544789890Author Editors of the American Heritage DiFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams)...

This book looks at current research and future directions in e-lexicography. Online dictionaries and reference tools are increasingly prevalent in a digitized and internet-led era in language study that has embraced computational linguistics. This book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877792611Author Merriam-WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Merriam Webster,U.S.Publisher Merriam Webster,U.S.

This dictionary offers over 5000 terms translated to and from English covering all aspects of business, including office practice, the stock market, international trading, accounting and marketing terminology. '...a blessing. Pocket sized, but packed...

This dictionary offers over 5000 terms translated to and from English, covering all aspects of business, including office practice, the stock market, international trading, accounting and marketing terminology. '...this dictionary is essential for any...

This dictionary offers over 5000 terms translated to and from English covering all aspects of business, including office practice, the stock market, international trading, accounting and marketing terminology. '...a blessing. Pocket sized, but packed...

This dictionary provides a record of the Kanien'keha (Mohawk) language as spoken by fluent first- and second-language speakers at the Kanien'keha Mohawk Territory outside of Montreal, Canada. The Kanien'keha language has been written since the 1600s, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943737338Author Lochlainn SeabrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 724Imprint Sea Raven PressPublisher Sea Raven PressWeight(grams) 903gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596951785Author Merriam-WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 888Imprint Federal Street PressPublisher Federal Street PressWeight(grams) 1225gDimensions(mm)...

This dictionary contains criminal justice terms, criminological concepts, and over 100 cases decided by courts in the federal system, including the United States Supreme Court. These cases address aspects of criminal procedures, as well as individual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476705040Author Webster's New WorldFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 178mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816631629Author PrismaFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

The home of trusted Caribbean dictionaries and thesauruses for school use. Collins Student's Dictionary for the Caribbean is designed especially for Caribbean Students, offering up-to-date coverage of today's language. It also features a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877792987Author Merriam-WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Merriam Webster,U.S.Publisher Merriam Webster,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877792819Author Merriam-WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 928Imprint Merriam-WebsterPublisher Merriam-WebsterWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 170mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877797319Author Merriam-WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Merriam Webster,U.S.Publisher Merriam Webster,U.S.

In the United States, 20 percent of the adult population is marginally literate. Of these roughly 30 million people, approximately 1.8 million are enrolled in basic skills literacy programs. Webster's New World has created a dictionary that is uniquely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788170282860Author Hardev BahriFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint Rajpal & SonsPublisher Rajpal & Sons

Unparalleled in its thoroughness, its accessibility, and its relevance to all areas of Latin American studies, this volume is a dictionary of 21,000 terms related to race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality used in the region over the past five centuries...

With over 25,000 English entries and their Basque equivalents in six major dialects, this volume is the most complete reference to the Basque language to date for English-speaking people. This useful resource is the very first of its kind to become...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544176188Author Editors of the American Heritage DiFormat HardbackPage Count 864Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

A celebration of western Washington Native language and culture, this book is a completely reformatted and greatly revised and expanded update of Thom Hess's Dictionary of Puget Salish (1976). Editor Dawn Bates integrates the field notes of Vi Hilbert,...

The second volume of Julie Coleman's fascinating and entertaining history of the uses and the recording of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785 to 1858 and explores its first manifestations in the USA and Australia. During this period...

The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in...

Developed by professional editors and educational consultants especially for preschoolers and children in the first years of school, the award-winning Picture Dictionary is a compilation of 900 of the words most commonly featured in elementary school...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345405470Author Random HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 912Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm)...

Compiled by two internationally renowned experts, and with over 600 wide-ranging and informative entries, The Routledge Dictionary of Judaism provides the reader with an invaluable reference aid to all areas of the religion. Topics covered include:*The...

This pioneering book is the prototype of the etymological thesaurus that has been the goal of the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus project (STEDT) since 1987. It presents nearly 170 Proto-Tibeto-Burman etymologies in the semantic area...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380607723Author Oxford University PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 1120Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544785670Author Editors of Webster's New World CollFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow &...

The Vend nyelvtan is a grammar completed in 1942 by the linguist Avgust Pavel that was designed to serve as a modern standard for the Prekmurje Slovenes who were to be subjects of Hungary. Though the grammar was meant to divide the Prekmurje Slovenes...

Did he ever play Hamlet? Has she worked in television? What was the title of his first novel? Under whom did she study? How many children has he? Answers to such questions about contemporary Canadian artists have often been difficult, even impossible, to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877792994Author Merriam-WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Merriam-WebsterPublisher Merriam-Webster