Lawrence Johnson

Biographic Data

ID3825212
NAMELawrence Johnson
GIVEN NAMESLawrence
FAMILY NAMEJohnson
SIGNATUREJOHNSON L
AFFILIATIONSWest Health
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX1

  • The Politics of Racial Symbolism

    Open AccessLaurie Johnson, Lawrence JohnsonARTICLECritical Sociology2019References: 34

    This article assesses the link between racial symbolism and corporate education reform through the political discourse of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick between 2007 and 2010. Where many observers find the representation of high profile Black elected officials as an attenuation of racial domination, I argue it is the symbolism of racial progress that is utilized to advance corporate interests in public education reform. Patrick's discourse …

  • The Relationship Between Education and Prostate-Specific Antigen Testing Among Urban African American Medicare Beneficiaries

    Open AccessMohammad K Hararah, Craig Evan Pollack et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2015References: 23

  • Tracing Calculation [ Calque Calcul ] Between Nicolas Abraham and Jacques Derrida

    Open AccessLaurie Johnson, Lawrence JohnsonARTICLEPostmodern Culture2000

    Tracing Calculation [Calque Calcul] Between Nicolas Abraham and Jacques Derrida Lawrence Johnson To calculate the loss—is this the challenge that Nicolas Abraham has given to Jacques Derrida? Between 1959 and 1975, the year of Abraham’s unexpected death, they were close friends, sharing what Elisabeth Roudinesco describes as “a marginal position in relation to the dominant philosophical discourse of the day, and an almost identical syntax” (599).…

  • Truth and Historicity

    Laurie Johnson, Lawrence Johnson et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1995

  • Voiced t in post-voiceless contexts

    Open AccessLawrence JohnsonARTICLELingua1978References: 7

  • A Reader on Language Variety

    Lawrence Johnson, S S Butler et al.ARTICLELanguage1977

  • American Talk

    Lawrence Johnson, J L DillardARTICLELanguage1977

  • A rate of change index for language

    Open AccessLawrence JohnsonARTICLELanguage in Society1976Cited by: 1References: 6

    Although the rates of changes in language are customarily described in relative terms, this paper presents a method of quantifying the rate of a given change during a specific time period. Utilizing the results of recent studies of sound change in progress, the Rate of Change Index is applied to the data for the purpose of indicating precisely the speed of these changes. Also measured in this manner are the rates of change of a variable in differ…

  • Sound Chance and Mobility in Los Angeles

    Open AccessLawrence JohnsonARTICLELinguistics1975