Barbara Johnstone

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

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Johnstone, Barbara 2021 The sociolinguistic cityUrban 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 commentaryThe 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 studiesRhetoric in Detail: Discourse analyses of rhetorical talk and text, Johnstone, Barbara and Christopher Eisenhart (eds.), pp. 3–21 | Article
Zdenek, Sean and Barbara Johnstone 2008 Studying style and legitimation: Critical linguistics and Critical Discourse AnalysisRhetoric 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 sociolinguisticsNarrative – 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 stancetakingStancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction, Englebretson, Robert (ed.), pp. 49–68 | Article
Johnstone, Barbara 2006 A new role for narrative in variationist sociolinguisticsNarrative – State of the Art, Bamberg, Michael (ed.), pp. 46–55 | 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