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Reviews Of Barbara Johnstone, The Linguistic Individual, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2017

Reviews Of Barbara Johnstone, The Linguistic Individual, Barbara Johnstone

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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

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

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Reviews Of Barbara Johnstone, Discourse Analysis, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2017

Reviews Of Barbara Johnstone, Discourse Analysis, Barbara Johnstone

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Reviews Of Barbara Johnstone, Qualitative Methods In Sociolinguistics, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2017

Reviews Of Barbara Johnstone, Qualitative Methods In Sociolinguistics, Barbara Johnstone

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Reviews Of Barbara Johnstone, Repetition In Arabic Discourse, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2017

Reviews Of Barbara Johnstone, Repetition In Arabic Discourse, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

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Reviews Of Barbara Johnstone (Ed.), Repetition In Discourse: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2017

Reviews Of Barbara Johnstone (Ed.), Repetition In Discourse: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Barbara Johnstone

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Review Of Katherine A Remlinger, Yooper Talk: Dialect As Identity In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2017

Review Of Katherine A Remlinger, Yooper Talk: Dialect As Identity In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Barbara Johnstone

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Unpacking A Political Icon: ‘Bike Lanes’ And Orders Of Indexicality, Michael Miller Yoder, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2016

Unpacking A Political Icon: ‘Bike Lanes’ And Orders Of Indexicality, Michael Miller Yoder, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

Indexicality, the ability of language to evoke the context in which it usually occurs, is a concept
commonly drawn upon in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. This article applies the
framework of orders of indexicality to political discourse about a controversial topic in Pittsburgh,
United States, the construction of bike lanes. A concordance analysis of the term bike lanes in
news media, blogs and online news comments demonstrates variation in indexical meanings of
bike lanes between those who oppose and those who support them.We argue that the
orders of indexicality approach help explain how groups with different interests can reinforce or …

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Enregistering Dialect, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2016

Enregistering Dialect, Barbara Johnstone

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Mobilities, Materialities, And The Changing Meanings Of Pittsburgh Speech, Barbara Johnstone, Calvin Pollak Aug 2016

Mobilities, Materialities, And The Changing Meanings Of Pittsburgh Speech, Barbara Johnstone, Calvin Pollak

Barbara Johnstone

For many decades, people in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area have talked about local speech. “Pittsburghese,” as it is locally known, has become so tightly linked with local identity that it is alluded to almost every time someone talks about what Pittsburgh is like or what it means to be a Pittsburgher. But the set of words, pronunciations, and bits of grammar that are thought of as Pittsburghese has changed over time. This paper explores the role of social and geographic mobility in creating and circulating the ideas about Pittsburgh speech that help to determine who uses local-sounding speech features and …

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Characterological Figures And Expressive Style In The Enregisterment Of Linguistic Variety, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2015

Characterological Figures And Expressive Style In The Enregisterment Of Linguistic Variety, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

Much of the research that brings the concept of enregisterment into conversation with sociolinguistic variation has to do with how sets of linguistic forms come to be heard as dialects or regional accents: registers linked with places (Beal, 2010; Eberhardt, 2012; Johnstone & Baumgardt, 2004; Johnstone, 2009; Remlinger, 2010). But the process of dialect enregisterment often involves the previous or simultaneous enregisterment of the same or overlapping sets of forms with incorrectness and/or social class (Johnstone, Andrus, & Danielson, 2006), and sets of linguistic forms can become enregistered with prestige and authority (“Received Pronunciation”) (Agha, 2003) profession (“legalese,” for example), …

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Language Theory In Contemporary Sociolinguistics: Beyond Dell Hymes?, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2015

Language Theory In Contemporary Sociolinguistics: Beyond Dell Hymes?, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone


Language in Society was founded, in 1972, specifically to publish research related to “all the interrelations of language and social life” (Hymes 1972: 2). The journal’s founding editor, Dell Hymes, hoped that the journal would help lead to “a reconstruction of social theory in the light of linguistic methods and findings, and of linguistic theory on a social basis” (p. 2). When it came to the latter of these goals, Hymes hoped for a “broad conception of language and its relevance” (p. 3), broader than that of the “central thread” of twentieth-century linguistic theory, with its focus on reference at …

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'Oral Versions Of Personal Experience’: Labovian Narrative Analysis And Its Uptake, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2015

'Oral Versions Of Personal Experience’: Labovian Narrative Analysis And Its Uptake, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

William Labov is known across the human and social sciences for his work on oral narratives about personal experience. This article provides an overview of that research and discusses its uptake and influence in linguistics and in other fields. Subsequent scholarship on narrative has critiqued Labov’s model on the grounds that it privileges a certain genre of personal-experience narrative and underplays the role of interlocutors and other contextual features in shaping oral narratives, but such scholarship inevitably borrows Labov’s insight that the form of narrative is linked to its interactional functions. Narrative research in psychology and other fields often cites …

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Review Of Sali Tagliamonte, Making Waves: The Story Of Variationist Sociolinguistics, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2015

Review Of Sali Tagliamonte, Making Waves: The Story Of Variationist Sociolinguistics, Barbara Johnstone

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Proximity And Journalistic Practice In Environmental Discourse: Experiencing “Job Blackmail” In The News, Barbara Johnstone, Justin Mando Dec 2014

Proximity And Journalistic Practice In Environmental Discourse: Experiencing “Job Blackmail” In The News, Barbara Johnstone, Justin Mando

Barbara Johnstone

The shift from coal to natural gas to fuel electricity generation has positive (environmental) and
negative (economic) consequences for people in the affected areas of the US. Representations
of the situation in the media shape how citizens understand and respond to it. We explore
the role of proximity in media discourse about the closing of a coal-fired power plant near
Waynesburg, a small city in a Pennsylvania coal-mining region. Comparing reporting in smallercirculation
newspapers closer to the site with reporting in larger-circulation regional newspapers,
we find that Waynesburg-area papers simply describe the events leading to the closure while
regional papers …

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Discourse Analysis And Narrative, Barbara Johnstone, Anna De Fina Dec 2014

Discourse Analysis And Narrative, Barbara Johnstone, Anna De Fina

Barbara Johnstone

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Commentary: Sociolinguists And The News Media, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2013

Commentary: Sociolinguists And The News Media, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

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Ideology And Discourse In The Enregisterment Of Regional Variation, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2012

Ideology And Discourse In The Enregisterment Of Regional Variation, Barbara Johnstone

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“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 …

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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 …

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Making Pittsburghese: Communication Technology, Expertise,And The Discursive Construction Of A Regional Dialect, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2010

Making Pittsburghese: Communication Technology, Expertise,And The Discursive Construction Of A Regional Dialect, Barbara Johnstone

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Enregistering Style, Barbara Johnstone Apr 2010

Enregistering Style, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

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Dell Hymes And The Ethnography Of Communication, Barbara Johnstone, William Marcellino Dec 2009

Dell Hymes And The Ethnography Of Communication, Barbara Johnstone, William Marcellino

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Dell H. Hymes: An Intellectual Sketch, Joel Sherzer, Barbara Johnstone, William M. Marcellino Dec 2009

Dell H. Hymes: An Intellectual Sketch, Joel Sherzer, Barbara Johnstone, William M. Marcellino

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Two Roads Diverge: Review Of The Linguistics Of Speech By William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp Xii + 296. Isbn 978-0-521-88703-8; $99.00, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2009

Two Roads Diverge: Review Of The Linguistics Of Speech By William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp Xii + 296. Isbn 978-0-521-88703-8; $99.00, Barbara Johnstone

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Locating Language In Identity, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2009

Locating Language In Identity, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

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Indexing The Local, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2009

Indexing The Local, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

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Language And Place, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2009

Language And Place, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

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Pittsburghese Shirts: Commodification And The Enregisterment Of An Urban Dialect, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2008

Pittsburghese Shirts: Commodification And The Enregisterment Of An Urban Dialect, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

This article considers a type of material artifact that circulates ideas about regional speech in the United States: T-shirts bearing words and phrases thought to be unique to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I argue that Pittsburghese shirts, seen for themselves and in the context of their production, distribution, and consumption, are part of a process leading to the creation and focusing of the idea that there is a Pittsburgh dialect. To describe how particular locally hearable forms have become linked with the city, I invoke Asif Agha’s concept of “enregisterment.” To understand why this has happened at the time and in the …

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Some Personal Reflections On Rhetoric And Interdisciplinary, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2008

Some Personal Reflections On Rhetoric And Interdisciplinary, Barbara Johnstone

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