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Guide to the Pittsburgh Speech and Society Project Collection, 2003-2005 AIS.2009.02

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Title
Pittsburgh Speech and Society Project collection, 2003-2005, Collection of Pittsburgh Speech and Society Project, 2003-2005
Subject
Carnegie-Mellon University., Dialects--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--Study and teaching, English language--Provincialisms--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Sociolinguistics, Speech--Research, Pittsburgh (Pa.)--Social life and customs
Description
The Pittsburgh Speech and Society Project Collection consists of 51 compact disks containing 48 interviews as well as information about the interviewees and the project itself. Interviews were conducted by one of three people, with the majority being conducted by project director, Barbara Johnstone. Subjects involved interviews with lone subjects, married couples, and one mother-son couple. The interviews were designed to study the aspects of Pittsburgh language and dialects, however, as many of the questions relate to families, neighborhood histories, local news and individual events, life experiences in Pittsburgh are also captured., Pittsburgh Speech and Society Project Collection, 2003-2005, AIS.2009.02, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh., Gift of Barbara Johnstone in February 2009., Barbara Johnstone, Professor of Linguistics and Rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University, and Scott F. Kiesling, Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh, directed the Pittsburgh Speech and Society Project as a way to study the sociolinguistics of Pittsburgh speech, informally known as 'Pittsburghese.' The project involved casually interviewing people from four Pittsburgh-area neighborhoods with the goal of capturing unselfconscious speech. The interviews were designed to inquire about people's lives and attitudes about Pittsburgh, while investigating the local dialect. The project spanned 2003 through 2005, totaling 48 interviews. The project was made possible through funding by a U.S. National Science Foundation Collaborative Research award nos. BCS-0417684 and BCS-0417657., Finding aid Available in repository and on Internet; Folder level control; http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-ais200902
Contributor
Kiesling, Scott F., Johnstone, Barbara., University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
2003-2005
Type
Collection, Interviews.
Identifier
pitt:US-PPiU-ais200902
Language
eng
Relation
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-ais200902, pdcp_noharvest
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Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Cranberry (Butler County, Pa. : Township), East Liberty (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Forest Hills (Pa.), Hill District (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh, Pa.), New Sewickley (Pa. : Township), Pittsburgh (Pa.), Pittsburgh (Pa.), Wilkinsburg (Pa.)
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Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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