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Miscellaneous Reviews Of Book Chapters By Barbara Johnstone In Edited Volumes., Barbara Johnstone Dec 2017

Miscellaneous Reviews Of Book Chapters By Barbara Johnstone In Edited Volumes., Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

Miscellaneous reviews of book chapters by Barbara Johnstone in edited volumes.


“100% Authentic Pittsburgh”: Sociolinguistic Authenticity And The Linguistics Of Particularity, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2012

“100% Authentic Pittsburgh”: Sociolinguistic Authenticity And The Linguistics Of Particularity, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

As Bucholtz (2003), Coupland (2007, pp. 25-26), and others have pointed out, what counts as an authentic linguistic variety or an authentic speaker depends on who is counting and why. Sociolinguists have often unthinkingly privileged as their object of study the most unselfconsious, “vernacular” speech in relatively closed, homogeneous communities like traditional working-class neighborhoods, with their dense, multiplex social networks, and in the relatively self-contained symbolic economies of schools. This has allowed us to explore social correlates of variation and processes of change in communities where these things appear least muddied by outside influences, and doing so has given us …


Dialect Enregisterment In Performance, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2010

Dialect Enregisterment In Performance, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

In recent work I have been exploring how one set of linguistic forms has become enregistered as the dialect known as “Pittsburghese” ( Johnstone 2007a; 2007b; 2009; Johnstone, Andrus, and Danielson 2006). In this paper I analyze dialect enregistration in highly self-conscious performances of Pittsburgh speech and social identity. My data consists of three comedy sketches performed by the cast of WDVE radio’s “’DVE Morning Show.” One, called “Mother”, alternates lines of a somewhat parodically sentimental song about the singer’s mother with spoken-word illustrations by a “mother” character who uses elements of Pittsburgh-sounding speech. The second is an advertisement for …


Studying Identity And Agency: Cda, Interactional Sociolinguistics, Narrative Analysis, Grounded Theory, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2007

Studying Identity And Agency: Cda, Interactional Sociolinguistics, Narrative Analysis, Grounded Theory, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.


Studying Style And Legitimation: Critical Linguistics And Critical Discourse Analysis, Sean Zdenek, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2007

Studying Style And Legitimation: Critical Linguistics And Critical Discourse Analysis, Sean Zdenek, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.


Studying Entextualization And Controversy: Cda, Participant Observation, Computer-Aided Corpus Analysis, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2007

Studying Entextualization And Controversy: Cda, Participant Observation, Computer-Aided Corpus Analysis, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.


Discourse Analysis And Rhetorical Studies, Christopher Eisenhart, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2007

Discourse Analysis And Rhetorical Studies, Christopher Eisenhart, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.


Linking Identity And Dialect Through Stancetaking, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2006

Linking Identity And Dialect Through Stancetaking, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.


Book Note On Madeleine Frederic, La Repetition: Etude Linguistique Et Rhetorique, Barbara Johnstone Dec 1985

Book Note On Madeleine Frederic, La Repetition: Etude Linguistique Et Rhetorique, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.


Review Of Charles E. Butterworth (Ed. And Trans.) Averroes' Three Short Commentaries On Aristotle's "Topics.", Barbara Johnstone Dec 1980

Review Of Charles E. Butterworth (Ed. And Trans.) Averroes' Three Short Commentaries On Aristotle's "Topics.", Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.


Rhetoric And Culture, Ruth Anderson, Beth Bennet, Barbara Johnstone, Michael Svoboda Dec 1978

Rhetoric And Culture, Ruth Anderson, Beth Bennet, Barbara Johnstone, Michael Svoboda

Barbara Johnstone

(Also includes abstract of Barbara Johnstone Koch, The Rhetoric of Al-Farabi: A Medieval Arab Interpretation of Aristotle)


Rhetoric And Its Rehabilitation In Contemporary Philosophy, Vasile Florescu Dec 1969

Rhetoric And Its Rehabilitation In Contemporary Philosophy, Vasile Florescu

Barbara Johnstone

(translated from the French by Barbara Johnstone)