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Barbara Johnstone teaches advanced writing and linguistics courses in the Rhetoric Program at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. She has been studying Pittsburgh speech for the past fifteen years. Her book Speaking Pittsburghese: The Story of a Dialect was published by Oxford University Press in 2013. She is also the author of many other books, journal articles, and chapters on topics having to do with the role of the individual in language and linguistics and the relationships between language, identity, and place, as well as textbooks on discourse analysis and sociolinguistics.
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