Pittsburgh Speech and Society Project collection, 2003-2005.

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Pittsburgh Speech and Society Project collection, 2003-2005.

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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.

1.0 linear ft. (51 compact discs + 48 folders)

University of Pittsburgh

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University of Pittsburgh

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Johnstone, Barbara.

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Kiesling, Scott F.

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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...

Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic Orchestra

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