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Indexing The Local, Barbara Johnstone
Pittsburghese Shirts: Commodification And The Enregisterment Of An Urban Dialect, Barbara Johnstone
Pittsburghese Shirts: Commodification And The Enregisterment Of An Urban Dialect, Barbara Johnstone
Barbara Johnstone
This article considers a type of material artifact that circulates ideas about regional speech in the United States: T-shirts bearing words and phrases thought to be unique to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I argue that Pittsburghese shirts, seen for themselves and in the context of their production, distribution, and consumption, are part of a process leading to the creation and focusing of the idea that there is a Pittsburgh dialect. To describe how particular locally hearable forms have become linked with the city, I invoke Asif Agha’s concept of “enregisterment.” To understand why this has happened at the time and in the …
Indexicality And Experience: Variation And Identity In Pittsburgh, Barbara Johnstone, Scott F. Kiesling
Indexicality And Experience: Variation And Identity In Pittsburgh, Barbara Johnstone, Scott F. Kiesling
Barbara Johnstone
No abstract provided.
Mobility, Indexicality, And The Enregisterment Of “Pittsburghese.”, Barbara Johnstone, Jennifer Andrus, Andrew E. Danielson
Mobility, Indexicality, And The Enregisterment Of “Pittsburghese.”, Barbara Johnstone, Jennifer Andrus, Andrew E. Danielson
Barbara Johnstone
No abstract provided.
Representing American Speech, Barbara Johnstone
Representing American Speech, Barbara Johnstone
Barbara Johnstone
No abstract provided.