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Barbara Johnstone

Carnegie Mellon University ORCID

231

Works

6,125

Citations

40

h-index

74

i10-index

Research Topics

Linguistic Variation and Morphology Multilingual Education and Policy Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies

Affiliations

University of California, Santa Barbara2008–2008

University of Cape Town2011–2011

University of California, Los Angeles2008–2008

University of Pittsburgh2008–2010

Georgetown University1987–1987

Top Works

Mobility, Indexicality, and the Enregisterment of “Pittsburghese”

Barbara Johnstone,Jennifer Andrus,et al.

2006655 citations

Discourse Analysis in Language Studies

Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Indexicality and experience: Exploring the meanings of /aw/‐monophthongization in Pittsburgh<sup>1</sup>

Barbara Johnstone,Scott F. Kiesling

2008356 citations

The Linguistic Individual

Barbara Johnstone

1996283 citations

<b>Ethnography, linguistics, narrative, inequality</b> : Toward an understanding of voice. By Dell Hymes. (Critical perspectives on literacy and education.) London: Taylor & Francis, 1996. Pp. xiv, 258. Paper $14.95.

Barbara Johnstone

1997266 citations

PITTSBURGHESE SHIRTS: COMMODIFICATION AND THE ENREGISTERMENT OF AN URBAN DIALECT

Barbara Johnstone

2009216 citations

Stance, Style, and the Linguistic Individual

Barbara Johnstone

2009214 citations

<b>The language of children and adolescents: The acquisition of communicative competence</b> . By Suzanne Romaine. (Language in society, 7.) Oxford & New York: Blackwell, 1984. Pp. xiii, 297. Cloth $34.95, paper $12.95.

Barbara Johnstone

1986213 citations

Qualitative methods in sociolinguistics

Barbara Johnstone

1999199 citations

Enregisterment: How linguistic items become linked with ways of speaking

Barbara Johnstone

2016176 citations