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“100% Authentic Pittsburgh”: Sociolinguistic Authenticity And The Linguistics Of Particularity, Barbara Johnstone
“100% Authentic Pittsburgh”: Sociolinguistic Authenticity And The Linguistics Of Particularity, Barbara Johnstone
Barbara Johnstone
As Bucholtz (2003), Coupland (2007, pp. 25-26), and others have pointed out, what counts as an authentic linguistic variety or an authentic speaker depends on who is counting and why. Sociolinguists have often unthinkingly privileged as their object of study the most unselfconsious, “vernacular” speech in relatively closed, homogeneous communities like traditional working-class neighborhoods, with their dense, multiplex social networks, and in the relatively self-contained symbolic economies of schools. This has allowed us to explore social correlates of variation and processes of change in communities where these things appear least muddied by outside influences, and doing so has given us …
Linking Identity And Dialect Through Stancetaking, Barbara Johnstone
Linking Identity And Dialect Through Stancetaking, Barbara Johnstone
Barbara Johnstone
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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
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