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Author Interview: Jakub Mlynář on Conversation Analysis of Oral History

In OHR’s spring Issue, sociologist Jakub Mlynář uses conversation analysis to explore the nature of oral history, investigating how all participants—interviewers, interviewees, and later listeners and others users—make sense of the interview with cues such as temporal markers and existing knowledge. His article, “How is Oral History Possible? On Linguistically Universal and Topically Specific Knowledge,” […]

Oral History: CMU linguistics professor charts the city’s history through its language

Oral History: CMU linguistics professor charts the city’s history through its language For years, Carnegie Mellon University professor Barbara Johnstone has been the world’s foremost expert on Pittsburgh’s unique speech patterns. But don’t expect to use her book Speaking Pittsburghese: The story of a dialect as a phrasebook for negotiating the Strip District on a […]

Oral History Review

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