Speaking Pittsburghese - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Speaking Pittsburghese write by Barbara Johnstone. This book was released on 2013-12. Speaking Pittsburghese available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the history and development of Pittsburghese as a cultural product of talk, writing, and other forms of social practice.
Sam McCool's New Pittsburghese
Sam McCool's New Pittsburghese - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sam McCool's New Pittsburghese write by Sam McCool. This book was released on 1982. Sam McCool's New Pittsburghese available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Speaking Pittsburghese
Speaking Pittsburghese - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Speaking Pittsburghese write by Barbara Johnstone. This book was released on 2013-12. Speaking Pittsburghese available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the history and development of Pittsburghese as a cultural product of talk, writing, and other forms of social practice.
Pittsburgh Speech and Pittsburghese
Pittsburgh Speech and Pittsburghese - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pittsburgh Speech and Pittsburghese write by Barbara Johnstone. This book was released on 2015-09-25. Pittsburgh Speech and Pittsburghese available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Linguists have sporadically noted peculiarities of pronunciation, lexis and morphosyntax in the speech of European Americans in the Pittsburgh area, and Pittsburgh speech, locally known as “Pittsburghese”, has been a topic of discussion in the Pittsburgh area for decades. This variety has never before been systematically documented, however. The first and only scholarly book to describe Pittsburgh-area varieties of English, Pittsburgh Speech and Pittsburghese is an essential reference tool for anyone studying the dialect of the Pittsburgh area and the only textbook choice for anyone teaching about it.
Do You Speak American?
Do You Speak American? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Do You Speak American? write by Robert Macneil. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Do You Speak American? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is American English in decline? Are regional dialects dying out? Is there a difference between men and women in how they adapt to linguistic variations? These questions, and more, about our language catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cran—the authors (with Robert McCrum) of the language classic The Story of English—across the country in search of the answers. Do You Speak American? is the tale of their discoveries, which provocatively show how the standard for American English—if a standard exists—is changing quickly and dramatically. On a journey that takes them from the Northeast, through Appalachia and the Deep South, and west to California, the authors observe everyday verbal interactions and in a host of interviews with native speakers glean the linguistic quirks and traditions characteristic of each area. While examining the histories and controversies surrounding both written and spoken American English, they address anxieties and assumptions that, when explored, are highly emotional, such as the growing influence of Spanish as a threat to American English and the special treatment of African-American vernacular English. And, challenging the purists who think grammatical standards are in serious deterioration and that media saturation of our culture is homogenizing our speech, they surprise us with unpredictable responses. With insight and wit, MacNeil and Cran bring us a compelling book that is at once a celebration and a potent study of our singular language. Each wave of immigration has brought new words to enrich the American language. Do you recognize the origin of 1. blunderbuss, sleigh, stoop, coleslaw, boss, waffle? Or 2. dumb, ouch, shyster, check, kaput, scram, bummer? Or 3. phooey, pastrami, glitch, kibbitz, schnozzle? Or 4. broccoli, espresso, pizza, pasta, macaroni, radio? Or 5. smithereens, lollapalooza, speakeasy, hooligan? Or 6. vamoose, chaps, stampede, mustang, ranch, corral? 1. Dutch 2. German 3. Yiddish 4. Italian 5. Irish 6. Spanish
