Carnegie Mellon University Research Showcase @ CMU Department of English Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences January 2011 Making Pitsburghese: Communication technology, expertise, and the discursive construction of a regional dialect Barbara Johnstone Carnegie Mellon University, bj4@andrew.cmu.edu Follow this and additional works at: htp://repository.cmu.edu/english Part of the Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics Commons , Arts and Humanities Commons , Critical and Cultural Studies Commons , Discourse and Text Linguistics Commons , Human Geography Commons , and the Linguistic Anthropology Commons his Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Research Showcase @ CMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Department of English by an authorized administrator of Research Showcase @ CMU. For more information, please contact research-showcase@andrew.cmu.edu. Johnstone, B. Making Pitsburghese: Communication technology, expertise, and the discursive construction of a regional dialect. Lang. Commun. (2010), doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2010.08.010