Development of the Pittsburgh Dialect in the Postmodern Period from the Perspective of the Influence of Sociolinguistic Factors

Kateryna Vukolova (), Vira Zirka (), Nataliia Styrnik (), Tetiana Smoliana () and Lyudmyla Kulakevych ()
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Kateryna Vukolova: National Academy of Science of Ukraine Research and Educational Center Of Foreign Languages
Vira Zirka: National Academy of Science of Ukraine Research and Educational Center of Foreign Languages
Nataliia Styrnik: Oles Honchar Dnipro National University
Tetiana Smoliana: V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Lyudmyla Kulakevych: Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology

Postmodern Openings, 2022, vol. 13, issue 1, 420-435

Abstract: The relevance of the work is determined, first of all, by a new perspective on the speech variability analysis depending on the influence of selected extralingual factors: gender, ethnicity, social status and age, which, of course, corresponds to the current state of the linguistic development and growing interest in disclosure of the influence of social factors on the functioning of language in different territories, as well as the application of an ecolinguistic approach to the analysis of Pittsburgh dialect sociolinguistic differentiation. Second, our study is quite interesting in response about the sociocultural role importance of the Pittsburgh dialect (object of study) in the overall linguistic picture of the United States of America. The aim of the work is to determine the main parameters of the concept of “language behaviour of Pittsburgh residents†and to establish patterns of language unit’s variation of the Pittsburgh dialect in accordance with the impact on their functioning of extralingual factors: gender, ethnicity, social status and age. The language behaviour of Pittsburgh residents is due to the influence of non-linguistic factors (gender, ethnicity, social status of speakers and age). The functioning of speech in this area, the implementation of phonetic processes and lexical units in communication directly depends on the social impact on speech. The novelty of the study is that for the first time on the material of the modern Pittsburgh dialect the regularities of variation of language mean of phonetic and lexical levels from the point of view of ecolinguistic approach to studying sociolinguistic differentiation of speech of Pittsburgh dialects speakers are determined. An analytical study was conducted and the variation of certain language tools used by Pittsburgh speakers according to their social affiliation was established.

Keywords: Ecolinguistic approach; ethnic origin; social status; social factors; speech functioning; the United States of America; sociophonetic differentiation; sociolinguistics; variability; postmodernism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I2 O0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.18662/po/13.1/405

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