Speaking Pittsburghese : the story of a dialect /

Speaking Pittsburghese : the story of a dialect /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Johnstone, Barbara.
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Description:	1 online resource (xxii, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford studies in sociolinguists Oxford studies in sociolinguists.
Subject:	English language -- Dialects -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh. Americanisms -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh. Sociolinguistics -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh. Americanisms. English language -- Dialects. Sociolinguistics. Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12015401

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ISBN:	9780199945696 0199945691 1299966705 9781299966703 9780199369836 0199369836 9780199945702 0199945705 9780199945689 0199945683
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	This book explores the history of Pittsburghese, the local dialect of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area as it is imagined and used by Pittsburghers. Sociolinguist Barbara Johnstone asks what happened during the second half of the 20th century to reshape a largely unnoticed way of speaking in the southwestern Pennsylvania region into a highly visible urban 'dialect' called Pittsburghese, linked to local identity so strongly that Pittsburghese is alluded to almost every time people talk about what Pittsburgh is like or what it means to be a Pittsburgher.
Other form:	Print version: Johnstone, Barbara. Speaking Pittsburghese 9780199945702

Table of 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.