Barbara Johnstone Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics Department of English Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 +1.412.268.6447 bj4 AT andrew DOT cmu DOT edu
education research interests courses current projects cv department of english updated September, 2007	education Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Michigan, December 1981 Dissertation title: Repetition in Discourse: Cohesion and Persuasion in Arabic Argumentative Prose. Committee chair: A. L. Becker  M.A. in Linguistics and TEFL, University of Michigan, December 1977  B.A. in Linguistics, Yale University, May 1974  Post-baccalaureate non-degree student, Texas A&M University, 1993-1996 (undergraduate coursework in music theory, composition, and music history) top major research interests Discourse structure and function. Forms and functions of narrative; women's and men's narrative; functions of repetition in discourse and their implications for linguistic theory; cross-cultural study of rhetorical discourse; current work on the individual voice in linguistic and rhetorical theory, on the rhetorical construction of place and local identity through discourse about local speech in Pittsburgh. Sociolinguistics. Regional/social variation in discourse structure and strategy; interactional sociolinguistics; ethnography of communication; gender and regional variation in discourse style; methodology in qualitative sociolinguistics; current work on urban North Midland English in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Editor, Language in Society, 2005-present. Rhetoric, history and theory. Persuasive talk; cross-cultural study of persuasive styles in the U.S. and the Middle East; revised and edited my sister's doctoral thesis on journal-keeping for posthumous publication. top recent courses Discourse Analysis Research Methods The Rhetoric of Place Sociolinguistics  Language and Culture Argument Paragraphs/Genre top