Barbara Johnstone
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American professor of rhetoric and linguistics
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Barbara Johnstone's Degrees
- PhD Linguistics University of Pennsylvania
- Masters Linguistics University of Pennsylvania
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Barbara Johnstone is an American professor of rhetoric and linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University. She specializes in discourse structure and function, sociolinguistics, rhetorical theory, and methods of text analysis. She was the editor in chief of Language in Society from 2005 to 2013, and is the editor of Pittsburgh Speech & Society, a website about Pittsburgh English for non-linguists. She has published several books, including Speaking Pittsburghese and Discourse Analysis, 2nd Ed. . She has also written for The New York Times.
Barbara Johnstone's Published Works
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Published Works
- Mobility, Indexicality, and the Enregisterment of “Pittsburghese” (2006) (463)
- Qualitative methods in sociolinguistics (1999) (268)
- Indexicality and experience: Exploring the meanings of /aw/-monophthongization in Pittsburgh 1 (2008) (247)
- The Linguistic Individual: Self-Expression in Language and Linguistics (1996) (194)
- Stance, Style, and the Linguistic Individual (2009) (194)
- Discourse Analysis and Narrative (2005) (170)
- PITTSBURGHESE SHIRTS: COMMODIFICATION AND THE ENREGISTERMENT OF AN URBAN DIALECT (2009) (163)
- Stories, Community, and Place: Narratives from Middle America (1991) (144)
- Uses of Southern-sounding speech by contemporary Texas women (1999) (130)
- Place, Globalization, and Linguistic Variation (2004) (105)
- Presentation as proof: The language of Arabic rhetoric (1983) (105)
- The Individual Voice in Language (2000) (93)
- Indexing the Local (2010) (84)
- ‘He says ... so I said’: verb tense alternation and narrative depictions of authority in American English (1987) (84)
- Enregisterment: How linguistic items become linked with ways of speaking (2016) (81)
- Community and Contest: Midwestern Men and Women Creating their Worlds in Conversational Storytelling (1993) (78)
- The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics (2010) (73)
- "Dahntahn" Pittsburgh: Monophthongal /aw/ and Representations of Localness in Southwestern Pennsylvania (2002) (70)
- Self-expression and linguistic variation (1997) (69)
- Dialect enregisterment in performance 1 (2011) (69)
- Language and Place (2010) (58)
- Dell Hymes and the Ethnography of Communication (2010) (57)
- Locating language in identity (2010) (56)
- Linking Identity and Dialect through Stancetaking (2007) (53)
- Linguistic Strategies and Cultural Styles for Persuasive Discourse (1989) (51)
- Speaking Pittsburghese: The Story of a Dialect (2013) (45)
- Arguments with Khomeini: Rhetorical Situation and persuasive style in cross-cultural perspective (1986) (42)
- Language and Geographical Space (2010) (33)
- Introduction: Perspectives on repetition (1987) (32)
- 'Oral Versions of Personal Experience’: Labovian Narrative Analysis and its Uptake (2016) (31)
- Making Pittsburghese: Communication technology, expertise, and the discursive construction of a regional dialect (2011) (28)
- A New Role for Narrative in Variationist Sociolinguistics. (2006) (27)
- 'Orality' and discourse structure in Modern Standard Arabic (1990) (26)
- Characterological Figures and Expressive Style in the Enregisterment of Linguistic Variety (2016) (25)
- “100% Authentic Pittsburgh”: Sociolinguistic authenticity and the linguistics of particularity (2013) (22)
- Representing American Speech (2000) (17)
- Arabic lexical couplets and the evolution of synonymy (1983) (15)
- "You gone have to learn to talk right": Linguistic deference and regional dialect in Harry Crews's Body (1994) (14)
- Variation in discourse: Midwestern narrative style (1990) (13)
- From the SelectedWorks of Barbara Johnstone 2008 Indexicality and Experience : Variation and Identity in Pittsburgh (2015) (13)
- Lingual biography and linguistic variation (1999) (13)
- Features and Uses of Southern Style (2003) (11)
- The Sociolinguistics of Globalization: Standardization and Localization in the Context of Change (2016) (10)
- The philosophy of biology (10)
- Rhetoric and Its Rehabilitation in Contemporary Philosophy (1970) (10)
- Social Characteristics and Self-Expression in Narrative (1997) (9)
- Reasons for Reason-giving in a Public-Opinion Survey (2002) (9)
- How to Speak Like a Pittsburgher: Exploring the Role of a Folk Dictionary in the Production of a Dialect (2006) (8)
- Proximity and journalistic practice in environmental discourse: Experiencing ‘job blackmail’ in the news (2015) (7)
- Language, culture, and self in language learning (1997) (7)
- 'Sounding country' in urbanizing Texas: Private speech in public discourse (1998) (7)
- Pittsburgh Speech and Pittsburghese (2015) (7)
- Language theory in contemporary sociolinguistics: Beyond Dell Hymes? (2016) (7)
- Reflexivity in Sociolinguistics (2006) (6)
- Repeating yourself: Discourse paraphrase and the generation of language (1984) (6)
- "Pittsburghese" in the Daily Papers, 1910-1998: Historical Sources of Ideology about Variation. (2001) (5)
- JAPAN'S FRIENDLY ROBOTS (1999) (5)
- Studying style and legitimation: Critical linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis (2008) (5)
- Mobilities, Materialities, and the Changing Meanings of Pittsburgh Speech (2016) (5)
- Southern Speech With A Northern Accent (2018) (5)
- Studying Identity and Agency: CDA, interactional sociolinguistics, narrative analysis, grounded theory (2008) (5)
- An introduction (1987) (5)
- Communication in Multicultural Settings: Resources and Strategies for Affiliation and Identity (1999) (5)
- OXFORD STUDIES IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS (2009) (5)
- Violence and civility in discourse: Uses of mitigation by rural Southern white men (1992) (4)
- Enregisterment: Linguistic form and meaning in time and space (2014) (4)
- Whose Social Meaning? Pittsburgh Monophthongal /aw/ in Perception and Production (2004) (4)
- Review of Katherine A Remlinger, Yooper Talk: Dialect as identity in Michigan's upper peninsula (2018) (4)
- Review of Deborah Tannen, You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation (1993) (3)
- Unpacking a political icon: ‘Bike lanes’ and orders of indexicality (2018) (3)
- Steel City Speak (2001) (3)
- The Language War. (2001) (3)
- Globalization and the production of linguistic locality (2013) (2)
- Southern speech and self-expression in an African-American woman's story (1997) (2)
- More on the Pittsburgh Chain Shift (2007) (2)
- Remembering Dell (2010) (2)
- Review of Charles E. Butterworth (ed. and trans.) Averroes' Three Short Commentaries on Aristotle's "Topics." (1981) (2)
- In the Profession: Choosing the Right Journal for Your Manuscript (2009) (2)
- WHO KILLED THE MINOANS (1997) (2)
- Dell H. Hymes: An intellectual sketch (2010) (1)
- Local color: Orientational detail in Midwestern personal narrative (1988) (1)
- Rhetoric and Culture (1979) (1)
- Discursive Sources of Linguistic Diversity: Stancetaking and Vernacular Norm-Formation (2007) (1)
- Review of Frederick Bowers, Linguistic Aspects of Legislative Expression (1991) (1)
- Charles Antaki & Sue Widdicombe (eds.), Identities in talk. London: Sage Publications, 1998. Pp. ix, 224. Pb $26.95. (2001) (1)
- Fieldwork Ethics and Community Responsibility (2001) (1)
- Review of Ahmed Moutaouakil, Pragmatic Functions in a Functional Grammar of Arabic (1992) (0)
- Review of Eckert and Rickford, Style and sociolinguistic variation (2003) (0)
- Review: Yooper Talk: Dialect as Identity in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (2018) (0)
- Ruthellen Josselson (ed.), Ethics and process in the narrative study of lives . (The narrative study of lives, 4.) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996. Pp. xviii, 293. (1997) (0)
- Commentary: Sociolinguists and the News Media (2014) (0)
- Sali A. Tagliamonte, Making waves: The story of variationist sociolinguistics . Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2016. Pp. xi, 208. Pb. $46.97. (2016) (0)
- The sociolinguistics of narrative (review) (2008) (0)
- The Meaning of Uninflectedness: A Case Study in Form and Function (1981) (0)
- Review of Angela Davis, Women, Culture, and Politics (1989) (0)
- Chapter 4. Lexis and discourse (2015) (0)
- Reviews : Sociolinguistics: A Sociological Critique. By Glyn Williams. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1992 (1997) (0)
- Reviews of Barbara Johnstone, Qualitative Methods in Sociolinguistics (2018) (0)
- Review of Thornborrow and Coates, The Sociolinguistics of Narrative (2008) (0)
- Review of Charles Antaki and Sue Widdicombe (eds.), Identities in Talk (2001) (0)
- Review of Donald E. Polkinghorne, Narrative Knowing and the Human Sciences (1989) (0)
- Language and Place: "Pittsburghese" (2002) (0)
- From Pittsburgh Speech to Pittsburghese (2013) (0)
- Towards a Hoosier Economy of Talk: Poetic Structuring in Indiana Narratives (1985) (0)
- R. Keith Sawyer, Improvised dialogues: Emergence and creativity in conversation. Westport, CT: Ablex, 2003. Pp. xi, 262. Hb $69.95. (2004) (0)
- Linguistic Anthropology:The Semantics of Form in Arabic, in the Mirror of European Languages. David Justice (1988) (0)
- Review of Charles R. Cooper and Sydney Greenbaum, (eds.) Studying Writing: Linguistic Approaches (1986) (0)
- New Questions for Chinese Discourse Studies: Language, Space, and Place (2009) (0)
- Review of David Justice, The Semantics of Form in Arabic, in the Mirror of European Languages. (1988) (0)
- Book Review: Yooper Talk: Dialect as Identity in Michigan’s Upper PeninsulaYooper Talk: Dialect as Identity in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. By RemlingerKathryn A.Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. xxi + 183. ISBN: 9780299312503. (2018) (0)
- Panel on Open Access (2007) (0)
- Linking Language and Place in Interaction (2013) (0)
- Informing practice through the use of observations (2017) (0)
- What is your hot topic (2011) (0)
- Sociolinguistics (2006) (0)
- Some Personal Reflections on Rhetoric and Interdisciplinary (2009) (0)
- Instilling a lifelong love of learning in young children (2018) (0)
- Chapter 2. Phonetics and phonology (2015) (0)
- Chapter 3. Morphology and syntax (2015) (0)
- Chapter 1. Geography, demography, and culture (2015) (0)
- Pittsburghese in the Media (2013) (0)
- Review of Derek Bickerton, Language and Species (1992) (0)
- Chapter 5. African American English in Pittsburgh (2015) (0)
- The importance of quality early musical experiences (2018) (0)
- Collaborate and reflect (2013) (0)
- A Note on notation (2015) (0)
- The sociolinguistic city (2021) (0)
- Enclave, endangered, or simply stable? Explaining the Western Pennsylvania vowel system. (2009) (0)
- Acknowledgements / Remerciements (1999) (0)
- Chapter 6. History and trajectory (2015) (0)
- Studying entextualization and controversy: CDA, participant observation, computer-aided corpus analysis (2008) (0)
- Chapter 10. Language, place, agency: A commentary (2018) (0)
- Review of Timothy Crusius, Discourse: A Critique and Synthesis of Major Theories (1993) (0)
- The History of Yinz and the Outlook for Pittsburghese (2013) (0)
- From the SelectedWorks of Barbara Johnstone 2006 Mobility , Indexicality , and the Enregisterment of “ Pittsburghese . ” (2017) (0)
- Appendix: Annotated bibliography (2015) (0)
- Yinz Are in Stiller Country: Dialect, Place, and Social Meaning in Language (2013) (0)
- The Individual (1975) (0)
- Book note on David Justice, The Semantics of Form in Arabic (1988) (0)
- Linguistics at Work: A Reader of Applications. (1999) (0)
- A professional identity for working with children (2018) (0)
- Review of Dell Hymes, Ethnography, Linguistics, Narrative, Inequality: Toward an Understanding of Voice (1997) (0)
- OXFORD STUDIES IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS Stance Sociolinguistic Perspectives (2009) (0)
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