Mobilities, Materialities, And The Changing Meanings Of Pittsburgh Speech, Barbara Johnstone, Calvin Pollak
Aug 2016
Mobilities, Materialities, And The Changing Meanings Of Pittsburgh Speech, Barbara Johnstone, Calvin Pollak
Barbara Johnstone
For many decades, people in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area have talked about local speech. “Pittsburghese,” as it is locally known, has become so tightly linked with local identity that it is alluded to almost every time someone talks about what Pittsburgh is like or what it means to be a Pittsburgher. But the set of words, pronunciations, and bits of grammar that are thought of as Pittsburghese has changed over time. This paper explores the role of social and geographic mobility in creating and circulating the ideas about Pittsburgh speech that help to determine who uses local-sounding speech features and …
Barrios-Lech_Linguistic_Interaction_Appendix_Four.Docx, Peter G. Barrios-Lech
Jun 2016
Barrios-Lech_Linguistic_Interaction_Appendix_Four.Docx, Peter G. Barrios-Lech
Peter Barrios-Lech
Appendix 4, "Donatus on Pragmatics and Politeness," for Barrios-Lech, P. 2016. Linguistic Interaction in Roman Comedy (Cambridge).
Barrios-Lech_Linguistic_Interaction_Appendix_Five.Docx, Peter G. Barrios-Lech
Jun 2016
Barrios-Lech_Linguistic_Interaction_Appendix_Five.Docx, Peter G. Barrios-Lech
Peter Barrios-Lech
Appendix 5, "Supplementary Material for Parts III-IV," Barrios-Lech, P. Linguistic Interaction in Roman Comedy (Cambridge).
Privatizing Creativity: Verlan In Advertising And Politics., Cat Tebaldi
May 2016
Privatizing Creativity: Verlan In Advertising And Politics., Cat Tebaldi
Cat Tebaldi
Taking as a starting point advertisements I saw in cafes and food trucks, this presentation examines how advertising and popular media participates in, and profits from, the construction of a Mock urban language. I explore the constructions of a mock urban French that sounds hip at first but echoes colonial advertisements that positions subjects as not fully literate. Oasis juice's anthropomorphized Verlan-speaking fruit, "Onsfan la Poire", recalls the mock pidgin of the older ad slogan "y a bon ...Banania". In the language of these ads images ranging from savage illiteracy to dopey gang members” are ascribed to what Inoue termed …
Bad French: Imagining Illiteracy On The Margins Of Paris, Cat Tebaldi
Apr 2016
Bad French: Imagining Illiteracy On The Margins Of Paris, Cat Tebaldi
Cat Tebaldi
Bad French: imagining illiteracy on the margins of Paris.
Following Hill’s (2005) analysis of mock Spanish through internet searches, this paper explores the indexicality of the language game Verlan, as nonstandard, “bad French” in popular media. It explores the construction of a false urban French, that echoes of colonial advertisements and positions speakers as neither fully literate not fully French. Three images, savage illiteracy, comical delinquency, and linguistic terrorists are ascribed to the “ventriloquized bodies” (Inoue 2003) of students of color in France’s urban peripheries. Oasis juice advertisements show a silly, delinquent Verlan-speaking fruit, "Onsfan la Poire", …
Republic And Nation Are Just Metro Stations: Value, Language And Play In Urban France, Cat Tebaldi
Dec 2015
Republic And Nation Are Just Metro Stations: Value, Language And Play In Urban France, Cat Tebaldi
Cat Tebaldi
In times of crises over economics, migration, and terrorism France asserts republican values to reaffirm national unity, strengthen national borders, and calm bourgeois anxieties. Yet as republican values are seen to be embodied in particular national symbols and linguistic forms, they become the values of empire (Negri 2000), silencing minority voices and narratives. Ann Stoler describes this as France’s “colonial aphasia” (2011), the lack of a verbal or a conceptual vocabulary for the colonial past. In contrast to this silence and forgetting, young people of diverse origins on France’s urban periphery are coming up with new words and new …
1st_Plural_Hortatory_Subj_Menander_New.Xls, Peter G. Barrios-Lech
Dec 2015
1st_Plural_Hortatory_Subj_Menander_New.Xls, Peter G. Barrios-Lech
Peter Barrios-Lech
This is the data for my article, "The First Person Plural Hortatory Subjunctive in New Comedy"
Language Theory In Contemporary Sociolinguistics: Beyond Dell Hymes?, Barbara Johnstone
Dec 2015
Language Theory In Contemporary Sociolinguistics: Beyond Dell Hymes?, Barbara Johnstone
Barbara Johnstone
Language in Society was founded, in 1972, specifically to publish research related to “all the interrelations of language and social life” (Hymes 1972: 2). The journal’s founding editor, Dell Hymes, hoped that the journal would help lead to “a reconstruction of social theory in the light of linguistic methods and findings, and of linguistic theory on a social basis” (p. 2). When it came to the latter of these goals, Hymes hoped for a “broad conception of language and its relevance” (p. 3), broader than that of the “central thread” of twentieth-century linguistic theory, with its focus on reference at …
'Oral Versions Of Personal Experience’: Labovian Narrative Analysis And Its Uptake, Barbara Johnstone
Dec 2015
'Oral Versions Of Personal Experience’: Labovian Narrative Analysis And Its Uptake, Barbara Johnstone
Barbara Johnstone
William Labov is known across the human and social sciences for his work on oral narratives about personal experience. This article provides an overview of that research and discusses its uptake and influence in linguistics and in other fields. Subsequent scholarship on narrative has critiqued Labov’s model on the grounds that it privileges a certain genre of personal-experience narrative and underplays the role of interlocutors and other contextual features in shaping oral narratives, but such scholarship inevitably borrows Labov’s insight that the form of narrative is linked to its interactional functions. Narrative research in psychology and other fields often cites …
Review Of Sali Tagliamonte, Making Waves: The Story Of Variationist Sociolinguistics, Barbara Johnstone
Dec 2015
Review Of Sali Tagliamonte, Making Waves: The Story Of Variationist Sociolinguistics, Barbara Johnstone
Barbara Johnstone
No abstract provided.
