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Speaking Pittsburghese - The Story of a Dialect (Hardcover)
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Speaking Pittsburghese - The Story of a Dialect (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
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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 like, 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.
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