Read-alikes and related books

Books like Junk English

Looking for read-alikes for Junk English by Ken Smith? These 24 titles overlap in Sociolinguistics, Writing Skills, Historical & Comparative, and Form and overall literary texture.

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Top related books to Junk English

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Junk English.

The Book of Nonexistent Words

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Themes: Sociolinguistics • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

Pop Goes the Weasel The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes

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Themes: Historical & Comparative • Form • Linguistics

Nine Nasty Words English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever

John McWhorter

Themes: Sociolinguistics • Form • Linguistics

My Name Is Dick Laughter and Lessons From Living Life As A “Real Dick&#8221

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Themes: Sociolinguistics • Form • Linguistics

No Judgment Essays

Lauren Oyler

Themes: Form • Linguistics • Essays

Grammar Snobs are Great Big Meanies A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite

June Casagrande

Themes: Writing Skills • Form • Essays

The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader

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Themes: Writing Skills • Form • Essays

Quotation Marks

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Themes: Sociolinguistics • Linguistics • Essays

Southern Regional French A Linguistic Analysis of Language and Dialect Contact

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Themes: Sociolinguistics • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

#10

WarTalk Foreign Languages and the British War Effort in Europe, 1940-47

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Themes: Sociolinguistics • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

#11

The Bed of Procrustes Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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Themes: Form • Linguistics • Essays

#12

Social Theory and Language The Construction of Meaning

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Themes: Sociolinguistics • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

#13

Nationalism, Language, and Identity in India Measures of Community

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Themes: Sociolinguistics • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

#14

Handbook of Japanese Applied Linguistics

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Themes: Sociolinguistics • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

#15

Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish Literature

J. Keating-Miller

Themes: Sociolinguistics • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

#16

Servants, Masters and the Coercion of Labor Inventing the Rhetoric of Slavery, the Verbal Sanctuaries which Sustain It, and how it was Used to Sanitize American Slavery’s History — David K. O’Rourke

David K. O'Rourke

Themes: Sociolinguistics • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

#17

Business and Service Telephone Conversations An Investigation of British English, German and Italian Encounters

Cecilia Varcasia

Themes: Sociolinguistics • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

#18

Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics

Yoshiyuki Asahi

Themes: Sociolinguistics • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

#19

The Prodigal Tongue The Love-Hate Relationship Between British and American English

Lynne Murphy

Themes: Sociolinguistics • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

#20

Rhetoric and Irony Western Literacy and Western Lies

C. Jan Swearingen

Themes: Writing Skills • Linguistics • Humor

#21

Grammar for Grownups

Val Dumond

Themes: Writing Skills • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

#22

Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin

R.B. Kaplan

Themes: Sociolinguistics • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

#23

The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics

Douglas Biber

Themes: Sociolinguistics • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

#24

The Liverpool English Dictionary A Record of the Language of Liverpool 1850-2015

Tony Crowley

Themes: Sociolinguistics • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Sociolinguistics, Writing Skills, Historical & Comparative — the same threads that run through Junk English by Ken Smith. Among the authors featured: Stefano Massini, Albert Jack, John McWhorter, Dick Sherrod, and others.