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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.


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 …


“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 …


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

Some Personal Reflections On Rhetoric And Interdisciplinary, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.


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.


Review Of Timothy Crusius, Discourse: A Critique And Synthesis Of Major Theories, Barbara Johnstone Dec 1992

Review Of Timothy Crusius, Discourse: A Critique And Synthesis Of Major Theories, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.


Review Of Charles R. Cooper And Sydney Greenbaum, (Eds.) Studying Writing: Linguistic Approaches, Barbara Johnstone Dec 1985

Review Of Charles R. Cooper And Sydney Greenbaum, (Eds.) Studying Writing: Linguistic Approaches, 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.


Comments On Karyn Thompson-Panos And Maria Thomas-Ruzic's "The Least You Should Know About Arabic: Implications For The Esl Writing Instructor"., Barbara Johnstone Dec 1983

Comments On Karyn Thompson-Panos And Maria Thomas-Ruzic's "The Least You Should Know About Arabic: Implications For The Esl Writing Instructor"., Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.