Barbara Johnstone

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Barbara Johnstone plays a role.

Titles

Rhetoric in Detail: Discourse analyses of rhetorical talk and text

Edited by Barbara Johnstone and Christopher Eisenhart

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 31] 2008. viii, 330 pp.

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Repetition in Arabic Discourse: Paradigms, syntagms and the ecology of language

Barbara Johnstone

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 18] 1991. viii, 130 pp.

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Articles

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Johnstone, Barbara 2021 The sociolinguistic city Urban Matters: Current approaches in variationist sociolinguistics, Ziegler, Arne, Stefanie Edler and Georg Oberdorfer (eds.), pp. 9–26 | Chapter

What might we learn if sociolinguists’ objects of study were cities rather than speech communities within cities? Drawing on urban sociology, I suggest that we think of a city as a site of encounter among different sociolinguistic worlds. This would force us to confront heterogeneity, to ask how… read more

Johnstone, Barbara 2018 Chapter 10. Language, place, agency: A commentary The Sociolinguistics of Place and Belonging: Perspectives from the margins, Cornips, Leonie and Vincent A. de Rooij (eds.), pp. 207–212 | Chapter

Eisenhart, Christopher and Barbara Johnstone 2008 1. Discourse analysis in rhetorical studies Rhetoric in Detail: Discourse analyses of rhetorical talk and text, Johnstone, Barbara and Christopher Eisenhart (eds.), pp. 3–21 | Article

Johnstone, Barbara 2008 Studying identity and agency: CDA, interactional sociolinguistics, narrative analysis, grounded theory Rhetoric in Detail: Discourse analyses of rhetorical talk and text, Johnstone, Barbara and Christopher Eisenhart (eds.), pp. 141–145 | Article

Johnstone, Barbara 2008 Studying entextualization and controversy: CDA, participant observation, computer-aided corpus analysis Rhetoric in Detail: Discourse analyses of rhetorical talk and text, Johnstone, Barbara and Christopher Eisenhart (eds.), pp. 249–253 | Article

Zdenek, Sean and Barbara Johnstone 2008 Studying style and legitimation: Critical linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Rhetoric in Detail: Discourse analyses of rhetorical talk and text, Johnstone, Barbara and Christopher Eisenhart (eds.), pp. 25–31 | Article

Johnstone, Barbara 2007 A new role for narrative in variationist sociolinguistics Narrative – State of the Art, Bamberg, Michael (ed.), pp. 57–67 | Article

Labov and Waletzky’s (1997[1967]) path-breaking description of “narrative syntax” arose in the context of variationist sociolinguistic research, and narrative continues to be an important source of data for variationist’ work. In most of this work, however, narrative is not the object of study.… read more

Johnstone, Barbara 2007 Linking identity and dialect through stancetaking Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction, Englebretson, Robert (ed.), pp. 49–68 | Article

Johnstone, Barbara 2006 A new role for narrative in variationist sociolinguistics Narrative – State of the Art, Bamberg, Michael (ed.), pp. 46–55 | Article

Johnstone, Barbara 1997 Social Characteristics and Self-Expression in Narrative Oral Versions of Personal Experience: Three decades of narrative analysis, pp. 315–320 | Article

Johnstone, Barbara 1990 ‘Orality’ and discourse structure in modern standard Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Eid, Mushira (ed.), pp. 215–233 | Article

Johnstone, Barbara 1987 Parataxis in Arabic: Modification as a Model for Persuasion Studies in Language 11:1, pp. 85–98 | Article