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THE
LINGUISTIC
INDIVIDUAL
OXFORD STUDIES IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Edward Finegan, General Editor
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Douglas Biber
Alessandro Duranti
John R. Rickford
Deborah Tannen
LOCATING DIALECT IN DISCLOSURE
The Language of Honest Men and Bonnie Lassies in Ayr
Ronald K. S. Macaulay
ENGLISH IN ITS SOCIAL CONTEXTS
Essays in Historical Sociolinguistics
Edited by Tim W. Machan and Charles T. Scott
COHERENCE IN PSYCHOTIC DISCOURSE
Branca Telles Ribeiro
SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES ON REGISTER
Edited by Douglas Biber and Edward Finegan
GENDER AND CONVERSATIONAL INTERACTION
Edited by Deborah Tannen
THERAPEUTIC WAYS WITH WORDS
Kathleen Warden Ferrara
SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES
Papers on
Language in Society, 1959-1994
Charles A. Ferguson
Edited by Thorn Huebner
THE LINGUISTIC INDIVIDUAL
Self-Expression in Language and Linguistics
Barbara Johnstone
THE
LINGUISTIC
INDIVIDUAL
Self-Expression in
Language and Linguistics
Barbara Johnstone
New York Oxford
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1996
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Johnstone, Barbara.
The linguistic individual : self-expression in language and
linguistics / Barbara Johnstone.
p. cm.—(Oxford studies in sociolinguistics)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-19-510184-7.—ISBN 0-19-510185-5 (pbk.)
1. Linguistics 2. Individuality. 3. Language and languages.
4. Sociolinguistics. 5. Self. I. Title. II. Series.
P123.J63 1996
306.4'4—dc20
The following material in chapter 5 is quoted with permission:
excerpts from the 1974 House Judiciary Committee speech and the 1976 Democratic
Convention keynote address by Barbara Jordan, with the permission of Barbara Jordan; excerpts
from "Kwanzaa," "Gymnastics a Hit in Bryan in the '50s," "Blacks in Focus: Photos Reveal
Slave Descendants' Story" and "On Being Black in Houston" by Sunny Nash, with the
permission of Sunny Nash; excerpt reprinted from Voices
in
America:
Bicentennial Conversations
by Bernard Murchland, Prakken Publications, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1987.
135798642
Printed in the United States of America
on acid-free paper
95-21703
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