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Author: Barbara Johnstone (Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics, Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.10cm
Weight: 0.386kg
ISBN: 9780199945702
ISBN 10: 0199945705
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 05 December 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""No dialect in the United States is quite like Pittsburghese-in linguistic distinctiveness, public awareness, and sociolinguistic commodification. And no linguist is better suited to describe the creation, construction, and circulation of this unique sociolinguistic situation than Barbara Johnstone. This book offers a powerful, perceptive analysis presented in engaging style--a sociolinguistic masterpiece."" --Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University ""Barbara Johnstone has the gift of presenting intellectually complex material in a clear and comprehensible way. Here, she elucidates the ideological framework of indexicality and enregisterment, taking the holistic approach of community of practice studies but applying this to the city as community and letting the people of Pittsburgh speak for themselves. Her commitment to this city and its people shines through."" --Joan Beal, Sheffield University
No dialect in the United States is quite like Pittsburghese-in linguistic distinctiveness, public awareness, and sociolinguistic commodification. And no linguist is better suited to describe the creation, construction, and circulation of this unique sociolinguistic situation than Barbara Johnstone. This book offers a powerful, perceptive analysis presented in engaging styl? a sociolinguistic masterpiece. Barbara Johnstone has the gift of presenting intellectually complex material in a clear and comprehensible way. Here, she elucidates the ideological framework of indexicality and enregisterment, taking the holistic approach of community of practice studies but applying this to the city as community and letting the people of Pittsburgh speak for themselves. Her commitment to this city and its people shines through. Joan Beal, Sheffield University
No dialect in the United States is quite like Pittsburghese-in linguistic distinctiveness, public awareness, and sociolinguistic commodification. And no linguist is better suited to describe the creation, construction, and circulation of this unique sociolinguistic situation than Barbara Johnstone. This book offers a powerful, perceptive analysis presented in engaging styl? a sociolinguistic masterpiece. Barbara Johnstone has the gift of presenting intellectually complex material in a clear and comprehensible way. Here, she elucidates the ideological framework of indexicality and enregisterment, taking the holistic approach of community of practice studies but applying this to the city as community and letting the people of Pittsburgh speak for themselves. Her commitment to this city and its people shines through. Joan Beal, Sheffield University Speaking Pittsburghese: The story of a dialect is an impressive masterpiece that pushes sociolinguists and dialectologists to take a more multi-faceted approach to the study of dialects. Holman Tse, Sociolinguistic Studies
Author Information
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.
