Talk:Barbara Johnstone

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Article Ideas by Jmartinez4316
Looking at her wiki page I can already note that some of the information are not in chronogical order. For example her academic works such as the books she wrote the years she published it are in the wrong order. Another thing that I can contribute is her legacy and a list of her most notable papers, books or research. As well as noting down where she got her academic creditentials as in what universities did she get her degrees from.

Article Ideas from Jbergmann5
I'm right there with you, Jmartinez4316. I think the main thing we need to tackle is the organization. I think the final sentence alone could be seperated into several different segments and expanded upon with what information we can find on those topics that she has discussed. One thing that I want to find out though is how in depth we have to go on the "personal life" side for a living person's biography such as this. There's quite a bit to do, but I think out of what to do, organization comes first, and then second would be maybe expanding upon Pittsburghese and some of the traits she has assigned to it.Jbergmann5 (talk) 00:47, 19 February 2018 (UTC) Edit: I found some more sources to add onto what you all found. They are as follows: Johnstone, B. (1990). Stories, community, and place: narratives from middle America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Wolfram, W., & Ward, B. (2007). American voices: how dialects differ from coast to coast. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Mobility, indexicality, and the enregisterment of “Pittsburghese”

In particular, I think these could help expand on the Pittsburghese section and maybe talk a little more in detail about her contributions to the study of it.

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I agree with Jbergmann5 I think we need to add a bit to the biographical information especially where and when she got her degrees, but I think our main focus should be on information about her career and articles. I think that we should create a new section for her articles and have the title, year, and a little bit about the article, like a really short abstract. The UTA library has a bunch of her books and articles available so we can use that information to build up her page, I will post some of them below, some of them are only available through the loaning system so I will ask for them but we won't have all the information for a few days. Also I agree that because her research is focused a lot on Pittsburgh English we should expand on that and maybe link to other wikipedia articles to explain some background information. We could link to dialects, and other articles about particular Pittsburgh phrases and history. She also has several books and articles talking about rhetoric and discourse analysis which I think we should add. She also has a lot of editors notes for other articles that I think would behelpful if we wanted to link her to other research.

This is an interview with Barbara Johnstone Queen, R. (2015). Interview with barbara johnstone. Journal of English Linguistics, 43(4), 341-355. 10.1177/0075424215607330

Pittsburghese

Johnstone, B. (2011). Making pittsburghese: Communication technology, expertise, and the discursive construction of a regional dialect. Language and Communication, 31(1), 3-15. 10.1016/j.langcom.2010.08.010

Johnstone, B., & Kiesling, S. F. (2008). Indexicality and experience: Exploring the meanings of /aw/‐monophthongization in pittsburgh. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 12(1), 5-33. 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2008.00351.x

Johnstone, B., & Pollak, C. (2016). Mobilities, materialities, and the changing meanings of pittsburgh speech. Journal of English Linguistics, 44(3), 254-275. 10.1177/0075424216654519

Johnstone, B. (2009). pittsburghese shirts: Commodification and the enregisterment of an urban dialect. American Speech, 84(2), 157-175. 10.1215/00031283-2009-013 Ericaldagar (talk) 02:30, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Article Ideas by Mrobbins4
Those are some great sources you found, Ericaldagar! In addition to expanding on her Pittsburgh English, I think it would be good to expand on her research of Texas women and style-shifting. The lack of information over the other areas she has written for makes for an uneven article. If we could flesh out some of her other contributions in the other areas of linguistics, it would definitely flow better. And, just like Jmartinez4316 and Jbergmann5 have stated, if we could better organize her page (including different paragraphs, etc.), it would be easier to see just how much she has done for linguistics.

Here are a couple of her works on Texas women.

Johnstone, Barbara. "Uses of Southern‐sounding speech by contemporary Texas women." Journal of sociolinguistics 3.4 (1999): 505-522.

Johnstone, Barbara. "Sociolinguistic resources, individual identities, and public speech styles of Texas women." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 5.2 (1995): 183-202. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrobbins4 (talk • contribs) 04:01, 19 February 2018 (UTC)