Barbara Johnstone

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Dialect Enregisterment in Performance, Journal of sociolinguistics (2011)

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

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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...

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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...

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

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

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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)

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

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

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

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Representing American Speech, American Speech (2000)

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Dialect Enregisterment in Performance, Journal of sociolinguistics (2011)

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

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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...

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

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

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Language and Place, Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics (2010)

Locating language in identity, Language and Identity (2010)

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

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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...

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

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

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

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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)

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

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

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

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

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Representing American Speech, American Speech (2000)

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

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

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

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"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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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...

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

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

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

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

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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)

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

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

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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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lingual biography and linguistic variation, Language sciences (1999)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Introduction: Perspectives on repetition, Text (1987)

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

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

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

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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...

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

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

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

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

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

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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...

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Enregistering style, Rhetoric Society of America (2010)

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

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

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Dialect Enregisterment in Performance, Journal of sociolinguistics (2011)

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

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Pittsburgh speech

Dialect Enregisterment in Performance, Journal of sociolinguistics (2011)

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

Representing American Speech, American Speech (2000)

Discourse, place, and dialect

Dialect Enregisterment in Performance, Journal of sociolinguistics (2011)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

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

Representing American Speech, American Speech (2000)

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

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

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

"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)

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

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

The linguistic individual

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

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

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

Lingual biography and linguistic variation, Language sciences (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)

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

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

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

Method

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

Discourse analysis for rhetorical studies

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

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

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

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

Gender and language

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

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)

Public-opinion polling

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

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)

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

Narrative

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