Scholars track Texas twang

[ronkinm at georgetown.edu]

Scholarly and also highly accessible/readable are Barbara Johnstone's
case studies of Texans' expressions of personal and regional identity.
Early among them:

1995 Sociolinguistic Resources, Individual Identities, and Public
Speech Styles of Texas Women. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 5:1-20.

1996 The Linguistic Individual: Self Expression in Language and
Linguistics. Oxford University Press.

Johnstone is a Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon
University.

--Maggie Ronkin

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