• Preface and Acknowledgments


• Special Symbols and Typographic Conventions


• 1 Pittsburgh Speech and Pittsburghese


• 2 Yinz are in Stiller Country: Dialect, Place, and Social Meaning in Language


• 3 From Pittsburgh Speech to Pittsburghese


• 4 Perceiving Pittsburghese


• 5 Linking Dialect and Place in Interaction


• 6 Pittsburghese in the Media


• 7 Selling Pittsburghese


• 8 Performing Pittsburghese


• 9 The History of Yinz and the Outlook for Pittsburghese


• References

Barbara Johnstone is Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author of Repetition in Arabic Discourse (Benjamins, 1990), Stories, Community, and Place: Narratives from Middle America (Indiana UP, 1990), The Linguistic Individual (Oxford, 1996), and two textbooks. Her research has explored how people evoke and shape places in talk and what can be learned by taking the perspective of the individual on language and discourse.

An engaging exploration of the history of Pittsburghese, one of the most recognizable urban "dialects" in the United States today.