Norma Mendoza-Denton

Norma Catalina Mendoza-Denton is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles,[1] formerly of the University of Arizona.[2] She worked previously as an assistant professor at Ohio State University. She specializes in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, including work in sociophonetics, language and identity, ethnography and visual anthropology.[2]

Mendoza-Denton has served as president of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association, since 2011.[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] 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 2011 she received a National Institute for Civil Discourse grant for her work analyzing the ways in which politicians handle disagreements with their constituents.[7]

Publications, 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.
gollark: Not necessarily. Knowledge degrades over time (unless you have writing/computers/etc but even then language evolves and people disagree on interpretation).
gollark: Or they'd think it was God weeding out the unworthy and want to go to prove themselves.
gollark: (until they get horrible cancer and/or radiation poisoning; I don't know if it would be bad or immediate enough that people would form the connection)
gollark: Eventually people forget the exact details and schisms occur and whatever and people go around visiting it to pray or something.
gollark: Imagine your religion made the radioactive waste a sacred holy site which nobody was ever meant to go to or something.

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. "Officers". Society for Linguistic Anthropology. Retrieved 2012-11-23.
  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. 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.
  6. "Do You Speak American? California English". Retrieved 2012-11-23.
  7. Everett-Haynes, La Monica (2011-07-15). "Civil Discourse Institute Names First Grant Recipients". UA News. Retrieved 2012-11-23.


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