Barbara Johnstone

Carnegie Mellon University

Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics
Affiliated Faculty, Department of Modern Languages
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English

University of Pittsburgh

Adjunct Professor of Linguistics

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Expertise

discourse structure and function
sociolinguistics
rhetoric: theory, methods of analysis

Courses/Seminars

The Sociolinguistics of Style
Style
Introduction to Discourse Analysis
Discourse Analysis
Research Seminar in Rhetoric
Grammar of Standard Written English
Discourse and Identity
The Rhetoric of Place
American English

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Articles

Dialect Enregisterment in Performance, Journal of sociolinguistics (2011)

In recent work I have been exploring how one set of linguistic forms has become...

Making Pittsburghese: Communication technology, expertise, and the discursive construction of a regional dialect, Language and Communication (2011)

This paper explores how changing technologies for broadcast communication shape the expertise that comes into...

New Questions for Chinese Discourse Studies: Language, Space, and Place, Journal of Chinese Sociolinguistics (2010)

In the Profession: Choosing the Right Journal for your Manuscript, Journal of English Linguistics (2009)

Pittsburghese shirts: Commodification and the enregisterment of an urban dialect, American Speech (2009)

This article considers a type of material artifact that circulates ideas about regional speech in...

Indexicality and Experience: Variation and Identity in Pittsburgh (with Scott F. Kiesling), Journal of Sociolinguistics (2008)

A New Role for Narrative in Variationist Sociolinguistics., Narrative Inquiry (2006)

Mobility, Indexicality, and the Enregisterment of “Pittsburghese.” (with Jennifer Andrus and Andrew E. Danielson), Journal of English Linguistics (2006)

“Pittsburghese” Online: Vernacular Norming in Conversation (with Dan Baumgardt), American Speech (2004)

Review of Eckert and Rickford, Style and sociolinguistic variation, Journal of Sociolinguistics (2003)

"Dahntahn" Pittsburgh: Monophthongal /aw/ and Representations of Localness in Southwestern Pennsylvania (with Neeta Bhasin and Denise Wittkofski), American Speech (2002)

Reasons for Reason-Giving in a Public-opinion Survey (with Martha S. Cheng), Argumentation (2002)

Representing American Speech, American Speech (2000)

The Individual Voice in Language, Annual Review of Anthropology (2000)

Lingual biography and linguistic variation, Language sciences (1999)

Uses of Southern-sounding speech by contemporary Texas women, Journal of Sociolinguistics (1999)

Language, culture, and self in language learning, CALR Occasional Papers in Language and Urban Culture (1997)

Self-expression and linguistic variation (with Judith M. Bean), Language in Society (1997)

Social characteristics and self-expression in narrative, Journal of Narrative and Life History (1997)

Sociolinguistic resources, individual identities, and public speech styles of Texas women, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (1995)

Workplace reasons for saying you're sorry: Discourse Management and Apology in Telephone Interviews (with Judith Mattson Bean), Discourse processes (1994)

Gender, politeness, and discourse management in same-sex and cross-sex opinion-poll interviews (with Kathleen M. Ferrara and Judith M. Bean), Journal of Pragmatics (1992)

Violence and civility in discourse: Uses of mitigation by rural Southern white men, SECOL Review (1992)

Individual style in an American public opinion survey: Personal performance and the ideology of referentiality, Language in society (1991)

Variation in discourse: Midwestern narrative style, American Speech (1990)

'He says ... so I said': Verb tense alternation and narrative depictions of authority in American English, Linguistics (1987)

Introduction: Perspectives on repetition, Text (1987)

Parataxis in Arabic: Modification as a model for persuasion, Studies in language (1987)

Arguments with Khomeini: Rhetorical situation and persuasive style in cross-cultural perspective, Text (1986)

Arabic lexical couplets and the evolution of synonymy, General linguistics (1983)

Presentation as proof: The language of Arabic rhetoric, Anthropological linguistics (1983)

Contributions to Books

Dell Hymes and the Ethnography of Communication (with William Marcellino), The Sage Handbook of Sociolinguistics (2010)

Indexing the Local, Handbook of Language and Globalization (2010)

Language and Geographical Space, Language and Space: An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation (2010)

Language and Place, Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics (2010)

Locating language in identity, Language and Identity (2010)

Stance, Style, and the Linguistic Individual, Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Stance, (2009)

Linking Identity and Dialect through Stancetaking, Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, Evaluation, Interaction (2007)

Reflexivity in sociolinguistics, Encyclopedia of language and linguistics, 2nd. ed. (2006)

Discourse analysis and narrative, Handbook of discourse analysis (2004)

Place, Globalization, and Linguistic Variation, Sociolinguistic Variation: Critical Reflections (2004)

The Individual, Key Terms in Language and Culture (2001)

'Sounding country' in urbanizing Texas: Private speech in public discourse, Linguistic form and social action: Michigan Discussions in Anthropology Vol 13 (1998)

Southern speech and self-expression in an African-American woman's story, Language Variety in the South Revisited (1997)

"You gone have to learn to talk right": Linguistic deference and regional dialect in Harry Crews's Body, The text and beyond: Essays in literary linguistics (1994)

Community and Contest: Midwestern Men and Women Creating their Worlds in Conversational Storytelling, Gender and Conversational Interaction (1993)

'Orality' and discourse structrure in Modern Standard Arabic, Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics I (1990)

Linguistic Strategies and Cultural Styles for Persuasive Discourse, Language, Communication, and Culture: Current Directions (1989)

Unpublished Papers

How to Speak Like a Pittsburgher: Exploring the Role of a Folk Dictionary in the Production of a Dialect, Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 16, Limerick, Ireland (2006)

Presentations

Enregistering style, Rhetoric Society of America (2010)

Some Personal Reflections on Rhetoric and Interdisciplinary, Plenary speech for Rhetoric Society of America Institute, June 26, 2009 (2009)