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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) 02:41, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Peer Review of Barbara Johnstone Draft Revisions
I think y’all did a great job of organizing the information in the article by breaking it up into coherent sections. Everything seems neutral.

The section about her research on Texas women I think could use a little expounding, especially if this comprised an “extensive” amount of her writing. You could perhaps write a little bit about what “style-shifting” is, since this was apparently key in her writings on this topic.

Something that distracted me is the phrase “the ‘Linguistic Individual’” under the Research on Texas Women section because it’s not part of any sentence. What idea is meant to be conveyed with this dangling phrase? What is “linguistic individual”? Did you mean to include this as a list item under her other research?

All the facts appear to be cited accordingly. I also like idea of listing her publications at the end. One of your sources took me to a page listing all her publications, and there are quite a few. My suggestion would be to list several that support the statements in the article regarding the areas she’s contributed to the most (e.g., style-shifting among Texas women, Arabic language discourse, etc.).

I made a few minor copy edits towards the beginning of the article: adding "University" after "Texas A&M" and adding some links to existing wiki pages for the linguistic areas Johnstone specializes in.

Overall, I think y’all are making some great contributions to this article! --Alena b (talk) 22:40, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments. We will work on the Texas women's section. Thank you for pointing out the 'linguistic individual' we will also take care of that.Ericaldagar (talk) 20:58, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Response to Alena
Thanks so much for your appraisal of our article edits. I agree with you about the articles - with that website listing all of her publications, I think we can limit her articles on the wiki page to her "best hits". Also, great catch on "Linguistic Individual"! I had to look it up as well, so I think we can remove it from the current sentence and make the next sentence about the "Linguistic Individual" so we have a chance to describe it, hopefully reducing or eliminating confusion over it. We are still working on looking up more information about her studies on Texas Women, but that is definitely in our to-do list.Jbergmann5 (talk) 21:02, 29 March 2018 (UTC)