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]

Selected publications

• 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.

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.