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Speaking Pittsburghese : the story of a dialect / Barbara Johnstone.
LIBRA PE3101.P4 J64 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnstone, Barbara, author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in sociolinguistics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Dialects--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- English language.
- Americanisms--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- Americanisms.
- Sociolinguistics--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- Sociolinguistics.
- English language--Dialects.
- Pittsburgh (Pa.)--Languages.
- Pittsburgh (Pa.).
- Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 266 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- This book explores the history of Pittsburghese, the language of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area as it is imagined and used by Pittsburghers. Pittburghese is linked to local identity so strongly that it is alluded to almost every time people talk about what Pittsburgh is tike, or what it means to be a Pittsburgher. But what happened during the second half of the 20th century to reshape a largely unnoticed way of speaking into this highly visible urban "dialect"? In this book, sociolinguist Barbara Johnstone focuses on this question. Treating Pittsburghese as a cultural product of talk, writing, and other forms of social practice, Johnstone shows how non-standard pronunciations, words, and bits of grammar used in the Pittsburgh area were taken up into a repertoire of words and phrases and a vocal style that has become one of the most resonant symbols of local identity in the United States today. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Pittsburgh speech and Pittsburghese
- Yinz are in Stiller Country: dialect, place, and social meaning in language
- From Pittsburgh speech to Pittsburghese
- Perceiving Pittsburghese
- Linking language and place in interaction
- Pittsburghese in the media
- Selling Pittsburghese
- Performing Pittsburghese
- The history of yinz and the outlook for Pittsburghese.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199945702
- 0199945705
- 9780199945689
- 0199945683
- OCLC:
- 847842686
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