Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone Recent documents in Barbara Johnstone en-us Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:05:29 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/51 http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/51 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:10:07 PDT Barbara Johnstone Discourse, place, and dialect Method http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/50 http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/50 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:24:58 PDT Barbara Johnstone Arabic discourse Repetition in discourse Persuasion Rhetoric http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/49 http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/49 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:16:01 PDT Barbara Johnstone Method Rhetoric http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/48 http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/48 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:02:57 PDT Barbara Johnstone Pittsburgh speech Discourse, place, and dialect Persuasion Media http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/47 http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/47 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:59:50 PDT Barbara Johnstone Method http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/46 http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/46 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:51:31 PDT Barbara Johnstone Discourse analysis for rhetorical studies Rhetoric http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/45 http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/45 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:46:49 PDT 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 way it has, I draw on Arjun Appadurai's model of the "commodity situation." I suggest that Pittsburghese shirts contribute to dialect enregisterment in at least four ways: they put local speech on display, they imbue local speech with value, they standardize local speech, and they link local speech with particular social meanings. Barbara Johnstone Pittsburgh speech Discourse, place, and dialect http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/43 http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/43 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:03:04 PST Judith Mattson Bean Public-opinion polling Apologizing http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/42 http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/42 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:03:09 PST Barbara Johnstone Arabic discourse Repetition in discourse http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/41 http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/41 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:00:25 PST Barbara Johnstone Arabic discourse Repetition in discourse Persuasion