People
Scott Kiesling
Associate Professor
Department Chair
Director of Graduate Studies
(PhD, Linguistics, Georgetown University)
2801 Cathedral of Learning
Phone: 412-624-5916
E-mail: kiesling-at-pitt-dot-edu
Scott Kiesling's research in sociolinguistics focuses on the areas of language and gender, style shifting and stance, ethnicity, language change, and social meaning in language. He is currently pursuing social meaning and language change in Pittsburgh speech, and is working on a pilot project on the development of awareness of social variation in small children (this is not a reference to his own small children!).
Courses Taught
LING 1235/2235: Language, Gender, and Society
LING 1267: Aspects of Sociolinguistics
LING 1930: Applications of Linguistics
LING 2267: Sociolinguistics
LING 2761: Discourse Analysis
LING 3267: Advanced Sociolinguistics - Variation Analysis
Selected Publications
2005. "Homosocial Desire in Men's Talk: Balancing and
Recreating Cultural Discourses of Masculinity." Language
in Society 34,5: 695-727.
2005. "Variation, Style, and Stance: Word-final -er and Ethnicity in Australian English." English World Wide 26,1: 1-42.
2004. "Dude." American Speech. 79, 3: 281-305.
2001. "'Now I Gotta Watch What I Say': Shifting Constructions of Gender and Dominance in Discourse." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 11,2: 250-273
2001. "Stances of Whiteness and Hegemony in Fraternity Men's Discourse" Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 11,1: 101-115.
1998. "Men's Identities and Sociolinguistic Variation: The Case of Fraternity Men." Journal of Sociolinguistics 2:1, 69-100.