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
Education & Training
- PhD, Linguistics, Georgetown University
Representative Publications
Books
2015. Johnstone, Barbara, Dan Baumgardt, Maeve Eberhardt, and Scott Kiesling. Pittsburgh Speech and Pittsburghese. New York: Mouton.
2011. Kiesling, Scott F. Linguistic Variation and Change. Edinburgh Sociolinguistics Series. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press.
Edited Volume
2012. Paulston, Christina Bratt, Scott F. Kiesling and Elizabeth Rangel, eds. The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
In press. Kiesling, Scott F. “Masculine stances and the linguistics of affect: On masculine ease.” Norma: International Journal of Masculinity Studies. Special Issue: Masculinity and Affect.
2013. Kiesling, Scott F. “Flirting and ‘normative’ sexualities.” Journal of Language and Sexuality 2:1 (2013), 102–122. doi10.1075/jls.2.1.04kie
2011. Kiesling, Scott F. “The interactional construction of desire as gender.” Gender and Language 5(2): 213-239.
2010. Kiesling, Scott F., and Elka Ghosh Johnson. “Four forms of interactional indirection”. Journal of Pragmatics, Special issue on indirectness. Scott Kiesling (ed.). 42,2:292-306.
Book Chapters
In press. Kiesling, Scott F. "Stances of gender and sexuality in interaction.” In Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality, ed. by Judith Baxter and Jo Angouri. Routledge.
In press. Kiesling, Scott F. “Stancetaking with dialect and gender: Masculine stances in Pittsburgh.” In Identity and Dialect Performance, ed. by Reem Bassiouney. Routledge.
In press. Kiesling, Scott F. “Stance.” In The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality, Kira Hall and Rusty Barrett (eds.). Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
2009. Kiesling, Scott F. “Style as stance: Can stance be the primary explanation for patterns of sociolinguistic variation?” In Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Stance. Alexandra Jaffe (ed). Oxford University Press. pp. 171-194.
Research Interest Summary
Research Interests
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!).