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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 …
Dialect Enregisterment In Performance, Barbara Johnstone
Dialect Enregisterment In Performance, Barbara Johnstone
Barbara Johnstone
In recent work I have been exploring how one set of linguistic forms has become enregistered as the dialect known as “Pittsburghese” ( Johnstone 2007a; 2007b; 2009; Johnstone, Andrus, and Danielson 2006). In this paper I analyze dialect enregistration in highly self-conscious performances of Pittsburgh speech and social identity. My data consists of three comedy sketches performed by the cast of WDVE radio’s “’DVE Morning Show.” One, called “Mother”, alternates lines of a somewhat parodically sentimental song about the singer’s mother with spoken-word illustrations by a “mother” character who uses elements of Pittsburgh-sounding speech. The second is an advertisement for …
Locating Language In Identity, Barbara Johnstone
Locating Language In Identity, Barbara Johnstone
Barbara Johnstone
No abstract provided.
Language And Place, 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.
Linking Identity And Dialect Through Stancetaking, Barbara Johnstone
Linking Identity And Dialect Through Stancetaking, Barbara Johnstone
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.
"You Gone Have To Learn To Talk Right": Linguistic Deference And Regional Dialect In Harry Crews's Body, Barbara Johnstone
"You Gone Have To Learn To Talk Right": Linguistic Deference And Regional Dialect In Harry Crews's Body, Barbara Johnstone
Barbara Johnstone
No abstract provided.