Norma Catalina Mendoza-Denton (born 1968) is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. [1] She specializes in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, including work in sociophonetics, language and identity, ethnography and visual anthropology. [2] [3]
Mendoza-Denton earned a doctorate in linguistics from Stanford University in 1997 with the completion of her dissertation, Chicana/Mexicana Identity and Linguistic Variation: An Ethnographic and Sociolinguistic Study of Gang Affiliation in an Urban High School. [4] [5] She worked as an assistant professor at Ohio State University and at the University of Arizona before taking up a position at UCLA. [2]
Her ethnographic and sociolinguistic analyses of Latina gang members in California are presented in her book Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs. [6] Mendoza-Denton was a consultant for the Do You Speak American? television program. [7] In 2020, she published a collection of essays, co-edited with linguistic anthropologist Janet McIntosh, examining the politics of language during the Trump presidency. [8]
Mendoza-Denton served as president of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association, from 2011-2013. [9] She has also been active in the Linguistic Society of America, including serving on the Executive Committee from 2018 through 2020. [10] [11]
In 2011 she received a National Institute for Civil Discourse grant for her work analyzing the ways in which politicians handle disagreements with their constituents. [12]
https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/march-2020-member-spotlight-norma-mendoza-denton
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Norma Catalina Mendoza-Denton (born 1968) is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. [1] She specializes in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, including work in sociophonetics, language and identity, ethnography and visual anthropology. [2] [3]
Mendoza-Denton earned a doctorate in linguistics from Stanford University in 1997 with the completion of her dissertation, Chicana/Mexicana Identity and Linguistic Variation: An Ethnographic and Sociolinguistic Study of Gang Affiliation in an Urban High School. [4] [5] She worked as an assistant professor at Ohio State University and at the University of Arizona before taking up a position at UCLA. [2]
Her ethnographic and sociolinguistic analyses of Latina gang members in California are presented in her book Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs. [6] Mendoza-Denton was a consultant for the Do You Speak American? television program. [7] In 2020, she published a collection of essays, co-edited with linguistic anthropologist Janet McIntosh, examining the politics of language during the Trump presidency. [8]
Mendoza-Denton served as president of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association, from 2011-2013. [9] She has also been active in the Linguistic Society of America, including serving on the Executive Committee from 2018 through 2020. [10] [11]
In 2011 she received a National Institute for Civil Discourse grant for her work analyzing the ways in which politicians handle disagreements with their constituents. [12]
https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/march-2020-member-spotlight-norma-mendoza-denton
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