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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Raciolinguistics


 * Article Evaluation
 * The lead of the article could be improved to more accurately reflect the contents of the article as a whole. The article's content is relevant to the topic, and is written neutrally even though it addresses topics that could very easy lead to biased viewpoints. All the claims have citations in them, and the citations are also reliable. The article does cover historically underrepresented/misrepresented populations, and talks about a topic that has very current applications in education and political movements. The article could use a little bit more information regarding background, such as information on "markedness" which distinguishes certain language varieties from others. The article touches on a few racial groups, but doesn't explore the nuances of all of them. The article is very much centered around implications that are more frequently encountered in the US, but could also touch on instances of this that happen in other countries as well.


 * Sources
 * English with an accent : language, ideology and discrimination in the United States by Lippi Green (Chapter 7 is about media "teaching" children how to discriminate)
 * https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190625696.001.0001/acprof-9780190625696
 * https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190634728.001.0001/oso-9780190634728

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Sociolinguistics


 * Article Evaluation
 * The "High prestige and low prestige varieties" could include more detail and also links to other pages written about varieties that are given higher/lower prestige in society, and how it can even relate to raciolinguistics. The content is relevant to the topic and is written quite neutrally. Not all of the claims have a citation, especially the section on Social language codes really lacks citations. The citations are reliable. The article has the potential to reference a lot of historically underrepresented/misrepresented populations.


 * Sources
 * English with an accent : language, ideology and discrimination in the United States by Lippi Green (Chapter 7 is about media "teaching" children how to discriminate)

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Prestige (sociolinguistics)


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article could've talked more about markedness and also talked about language and race especially in education and certain varieties being given greater prestige. Talking about the role of education in allocating prestige plays a huge role in this topic. The page could have also talked more about language and power structures in the section about language contact. There are many claims that are missing citations, but the citations that are present seem reliable. The article does cover historically underrepresented/misrepresented populations.


 * Sources
 * https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/angl/131/4/article-p94.xml
 * Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology, First Edition. Laura M. Ahearn.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Media linguistics


 * Article Evaluation
 * Could provide examples of language use in media that can perpetuate stereotypes, racist ideas, and power structures. Could also touch on the role of language in current-day news, with different political figures calling the news fake, and what the role of language plays there.


 * Sources
 * https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=729242

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Complementary distribution


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article could benefit from additional examples that are different from English examples. Audios accompanying those sentences/phrases could also be interesting to add but necessary.


 * Sources
 * https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/lnc3.12271