Norma Mendoza-Denton

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]}

Biography

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]

Honors and awards

Mendoza-Denton served as president of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association, from 2011 to 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]

Publications and collaborations

• Mendoza-Denton, Norma and Scarlett Eisenhauer, Wesley Wilson, Cory Flores. 2017. Embodied Entanglements: Electrodermal Activity, Interaction, and Videogames. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 21(4), 547–575.
• Mendoza-Denton, Norma. 2017. Bad Hombres: Images of Masculinity and Historical Consciousness of U.S./Mexico Relations in the Age of Trump. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7(1), 423–432.
• Mendoza-Denton, Norma. 2015. Sociopolitical Resources and Youth Movements. (1st author, with Aomar Boum). Annual Review of Anthropology 44, 295–310.
• Mendoza-Denton, Norma. 2011d. The Multiple Voices of Jane Hill. (2nd author, with Jennifer Roth-Gordon). Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 21(2), 157–165.
• Mendoza-Denton, Norma. 2011c. The Semiotic Hitchhiker’s Guide to Creaky Voice: Circulation and Gendered Hardcore in a Chicana/o Gang Persona. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 21(2), 260–278.
• Mendoza-Denton, Norma. 2011b. Special Issue of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology on the Work of Jane Hill.  Co-edited with Jennifer Roth-Gordon.
• Mendoza-Denton, Norma. 2011b. Semiotic Layering Through Gesture and Intonation: A Case Study of Complementary and Supplementary Multimodality in Political Speech. (1st author, with Stefanie Jannedy) Journal of English Linguistics 39(3), 265 - 299.
• Mendoza-Denton, Norma. 2008. Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs. Wiley-Blackwell.
• Mendoza-Denton, Norma. 2007. Sociolinguistic extensions of exemplar theory. In J. Cole and J. Hualde (eds.) Laboratory Phonology 9. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
• Jannedy, Stefanie and Norma Mendoza-Denton. 2006. Structuring information through gesture and intonation. Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure 3, 199–244.
• Mendoza-Denton, Norma. 2004. The anguish of normative gender. In M. Bucholtz (ed.), Language and Woman's Place II: Text and Commentaries. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Mendoza-Denton, Norma. 2001. Style. In A. Duranti (ed.), Key Terms in Language and Culture. London: Blackwell.
• Mendoza-Denton, Norma. 1996. "Muy macha": Gender and ideology in gang girls' discourse about makeup. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 6, 47–63.

External links

• https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/march-2020-member-spotlight-norma-mendoza-denton

References

1. "Norma Mendoza-denton". UCLA Department of Anthropology. Retrieved 2014-12-10.
2. "Norma C. Mendoza-Denton". University of Arizona School of Anthropology. Retrieved 2012-11-23.
3. "Norma Mendoza-Denton". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
4. Mendoza-Denton, Norma (1997), Chicana/Mexicana identity and linguistic variation: an ethnographic and sociolinguistic study of gang affiliation in an urban high school, Stanford University, retrieved 23 November 2012
5. "Ph.D. Alumni | Linguistics". linguistics.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
6. Mendoza-Denton, Norma (2008). Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN   978-0-631-23489-0 . Retrieved 2012-11-23.
7. "Do You Speak American? California English". PBS . Retrieved 2012-11-23.
8. McIntosh, Janet; Mendoza-Denton, Norma, eds. (2020). Language in the Trump Era: Scandals and Emergencies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108887410. ISBN   978-1-108-84114-6. S2CID   241149659.
9. "Officers". Society for Linguistic Anthropology. Retrieved 2012-11-23.
10. "March 2020 Member Spotlight: Norma Mendoza-Denton | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
11. "Past Executive Committees | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
12. Everett-Haynes, La Monica (2011-07-15). "Civil Discourse Institute Names First Grant Recipients". UA News. Archived from the original on April 16, 2013. Retrieved 2012-11-23.