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Publication details [#56339]

Eberhardt, Maeve. 2012. Enregisterment of Pittsburghese and the local African American community. Language & Communication 32 (4) : 358–371.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect2 | discursive practice | metapragmatic term | speech community

Language as a subject

English, African American

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This article examines the enregisterment of the Pittsburghese dialect in the local African American community, and how it conveys and processes cultural values related to White localness in the city.