Indexicality and experience
Exploring the meanings of /aw/‐monophthongization in Pittsburgh 1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22986935 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Johnstone (0000-0002-1916-3155, Carnegie Mellon University), Scott F Kiesling (0000-0003-4954-1038, Carnegie Mellon University) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-33 |
| Publication date | 2008-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Sociolinguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-6441 • E-ISSN: 1467-9841 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2008.00351.x |
| OpenAlex | W2111020191 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 124 |
| References cited | 32 |
In this paper we test the hypothesis that monophthongal /aw/ is semiotically associated with local identity in Pittsburgh. We compare results of an experimental task that directly elicits participants' sense of the indexical value of /aw/‐monophthongization with the occurrence of this variant in the same people's speech. People who hear monophthongal /aw/ as an index of localness are unlikely to have this feature in their own speech, and many of the people who do monophthongize /aw/ do not associate this variant with localness. Exploring how four of these participants talk about this feature and its meanings, we show that the indexical meanings of speech features can vary widely within a community, and we illustrate the danger of confusing the meaning assigned by hearers to a linguistic form with the meaning users would assign to it. We suggest that a phenomenological approach, attending to the multiplicity and indeterminacy of indexical relations and to how such relations arise historically and in lived experience, can lead to a more nuanced account of the distribution of social meanings of variant forms than can studies of perception or production alone.
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Indeterminacy (philosophy) · Indexicality · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Perception · Presupposition · Semiotics · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology
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