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Penelope Eckert served as the President of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in 2018.

The Linguistic Society of America was created in 1924 with the intention to facilitate the advancement of Linguistic research in the United States.

As president of the organization, Eckert worked to combat workplace harassment and power dynamics in the linguistics community, through a panel entitled "Our Linguistics Community: Addressing Bias, Power Dynamics, Harassment", as well as developing an open dialogue between the Linguistic Society of America's Ethics Committee, the Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics (COSWL) and the Committe on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics (CEDL).

Prior to becoming President, Eckert had an extensive involvement in the society, holding positions on the ethics, nominating and diversity and inclusion committees.

Eckert developed three waves of analytic practice in order to facilitate the study of sociolinguistics and how it varies within communities. The first wave focuses on how linguistic variations relate to different demographic communities in highly populated American cities. The second wave deconstructed social structures with a more ethnographic approach. Finally, the third wave built upon the first two waves by articulating how these social structures are interpreted in a local context.

Good start, and nice work using the ref tags to cite your sources. The article already says that she served as president of the LSA, but if you can find some information about what she accomplished as president or what the society's priorities were during that time, it might be useful.

Eckert's role in introducing communities of practice to sociolinguistics came up in the reading this week. It might be worth following up on that Eckert & McConnell-Ginet citation from the textbook.

Can you tell me more about what you're thinking with that third source? It's mainly about Robin Lakoff and doesn't mention Eckert at all. djg (talk) 03:27, 21 February 2019 (UTC)