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Download full textJohnstone, Barbara; Danielson, Andrew – 2001
This paper explores how one facet of the process by which ideology about linguistic variation originates and circulates. It analyzes an archive consisting of newspaper articles from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, about Pittsburgh speech, the earliest of which is from 1910. The articles began appearing regularly during the 1950s-60s. First, the paper…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Ideology, Language Usage, Language Variation
