An EconoTimes perspective

Scott F. Kiesling

Professor of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh

Professor of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh 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!).