Speaking Pittsburghese

Speaking Pittsburghese is a highly readable and rich account of sociolinguistic process: the making of a dialect. Informationen zum Autor Barbara Johnstone is Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author of Repetition in Arabic Discourse (Benjamins, 1990), Stories, Community, and Place: Narratives from Middle America (Indiana UP, 1990), The Linguistic Individual (Oxford, 1996), and two textbooks. Her research has explored how people evoke and shape places in talk and what can be learned by taking the perspective ofthe individual on language and discourse. Klappentext An engaging exploration of the history of Pittsburghese, one of the most recognizable urban "dialects" in the United States today. Zusammenfassung An engaging exploration of the history of Pittsburghese, one of the most recognizable urban "dialects" in the United States today.

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Barbara Johnstone is Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author of Repetition in Arabic Discourse (Benjamins, 1990), Stories, Community, and Place: Narratives from Middle America (Indiana UP, 1990), The Linguistic Individual (Oxford, 1996), and two textbooks. Her research has explored how people evoke and shape places in talk and what can be learned by taking the perspective of the individual on language and discourse.

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An engaging exploration of the history of Pittsburghese, one of the most recognizable urban "dialects" in the United States today.