Norma Mendoza-Denton Explained

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] She worked as an assistant professor at Ohio State University and at the University of Arizona before taking up a position at UCLA.

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.^[5] Mendoza-Denton was a consultant for the Do You Speak American? television program.^[6] In 2020, she published a collection of essays, co-edited with linguistic anthropologist Janet McIntosh, examining the politics of language during the Trump presidency.^[7]

Honors and awards

Mendoza-Denton served as president of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association, from 2011-2013.^[8] She has also been active in the Linguistic Society of America, including serving on the Executive Committee from 2018 through 2020.^{[9] [10]}

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.^[11]

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Norma Mendoza-denton . UCLA Department of Anthropology . 2014-12-10.
2. Web site: Norma C. Mendoza-Denton . 2012-11-23 . University of Arizona School of Anthropology.
3. Web site: Norma Mendoza-Denton . 2022-12-26 . scholar.google.com.
4. Web site: Ph.D. Alumni Linguistics . 2022-12-26 . linguistics.stanford.edu . en.
5. Book: Mendoza-Denton, Norma . Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs. 2012-11-23. 2008. John Wiley and Sons. 978-0-631-23489-0.
6. Web site: Do You Speak American? California English . . 2012-11-23.
7. Book: Language in the Trump Era: Scandals and Emergencies. 2020. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-108-84114-6. McIntosh. Janet. Cambridge. 10.1017/9781108887410. 241149659 . Mendoza-Denton. Norma.
8. Web site: Officers . 2012-11-23 . Society for Linguistic Anthropology.
9. Web site: March 2020 Member Spotlight: Norma Mendoza-Denton Linguistic Society of America . 2022-12-26 . www.linguisticsociety.org.
10. Web site: Past Executive Committees Linguistic Society of America . 2022-12-26 . www.linguisticsociety.org.
11. News: Everett-Haynes . La Monica . 2011-07-15 . Civil Discourse Institute Names First Grant Recipients . UA News . usurped . 2012-11-23 . https://archive.today/20130416010300/http://uanews.org/story/civil-discourse-institute-names-first-grant-recipients . April 16, 2013.