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Barbara Johstone Draft
Barbara Johnstone is a Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University. She specializes in discourse structure and function, sociolinguistics, rhetorical theory, and methods of text analysis. She was the editor in chief of Language in Society from 2005 to 2013, and is the editor of Pittsburgh Speech & Society, a website about Pittsburgh English for non-linguists. She has published several books, including Speaking Pittsburghese (2013) and Discourse Analysis, 2nd Ed. (2008). She has also written for The New York Times.

= Education = Barbara Johnstone received her Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from Yale University. After this, she received her Master's and her Doctorate in Linguistics at the University of Michigan. She briefly taught at Texas A&M University as an English professor from 1996-1997, followed by her current position of Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University since 1997.

= Research on Pittsburghese = Johnstone is recognized as an expert on Pittsburgh English, locally known as "Pittsburghese." Her research is concerned with how the dialect is "constructed through local talk, and talk about talk," connecting "people's understandings of language and place" with language change. Her 2013 book Speaking Pittsburghese: The Story of a Dialect, is a summation of her scholarly work on Pittsburgh English. The book is a sociolinguistic analysis of the history of Pittsburgh English and how it has changed over time, with a focus on the process of enregisterment and how the dialect is linked to local identity. It also explores the history and local use of some of Pittsburgh's most emblematic words, including "yinz," "nebby," and "dahntahn." Johnstone also focuses on phonological features of "pittsburghese" such as the monophthongal /aw/.

= Research on Texas Women = Johnstone has written extensively about style-shifting among Texas women. In her article, "Uses of southern-sounding speech by contemporary Texas women", Johnstone delves into how Texas women use different ways of talking, which range from "automatic and nonstrategic" to "very planned and strategic".

= Other Research = Johnstone has also published papers on gender and language, Arabic language discourse, as well as many other linguistic topics. On top of that, she also wrote a book called the "Linguistic Individual," discussing self-expression in language.

Personal article ideas
I would personally like to work on the section dealing with her most popular articles and research. I think that I could have a good lay out for this section. I would do the articles in chronological order and provide a brief description about what the study was about. I think that giving people access to what she has researched and written will give them a greater understanding of her linguistic career.

Article Ideas (Barbara Johnstone)
The main thing we need to focus on is organization. There is very little information about her education which I think would be beneficial information. I would like to find where she got her degrees. I also want to make individual sections for her books, articles, and successes as an editor for Language and Society. I also want to make subsections for areas of study within the books and article section. By looking at the articles and books written by Johnstone from the UTA library she focuses mainly on Pittsburgh English and discourse analysis. I think that by making separate sections for these topics we can show her range of work and link to other wiki pages. I think that we need to show her most popular articles and research. This is an interview with Barbara Johnstone which I would like to use as background information on her education.

Queen, R. (2015). Interview with barbara johnstone. Journal of English Linguistics, 43(4), 341-355. 10.1177/0075424215607330 Pittsburghese is a large area of study for her and these articles show different areas of her research which will help make her page more detailed. She has social, phonological and historical aspects of the dialect to round out the page.

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) 02:46, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Article Evaluation
Speech acts

I think most of the article is relevant to the topic. I think that the sections about speech acts in computer science and political science is not necessary to understand speech acts in linguistics, and needs to relate the information to the rest of the article better. Also, I think that some of the language used was unnecessarily complicated and it was a little distracting.

This article is neutral and does not show bias.

A section and view point that is underrepresented is the section on speech acts in finance. Also the article makes a quick reference to locutionary and perlocutionary speech acts, but does not go into detail. It does go into detail about illocutionary speech acts, which makes the article unbalanced.

The links to citations work and help support the article.

The facts are referenced with reliable, neutral sources.

Some of the sources are from the 1960s but the information has been updated with newer sources.

A lot of the talk page is about adding other researcher's views on the topic, and adding other topics and areas in linguistics to improve the range of information. There was also talk about some bad sources, which were later corrected.

This article is part of WikiProject Linguistics and WikiProject Philosophy. It has not received a rating, but it is a "Start-class" article.