Norma Mendoza-Denton is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, where she is also affiliated faculty in Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Womens Studies, and Mexican-American Studies. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1997. Her main interests are sociophonetic variation, probabilistic sociolinguistics, language contact, gender and ethnicity, gesture analysis, and linguistic/ethnographic/videographic methods. Some of her publications include Homegirls: Language and Symbolic Practices in the Making of Latina Youth Styles (forthcoming from Blackwell); (with Jennifer Hay and Stefanie Jannedy) “Probabilistic Sociolinguistics: Beyond Variable Rules” in Bod, Hay, and Jannedy (eds.) Probabilistic Linguistics (2003, MIT Press); “Language and Identity” in Trudgill, Chambers, and Schilling-Estes (eds.) The Handbook of Language Variation and Change (Blackwell, 2001); and `Muy Macha: Gender and Ideology in Gang Girls Discourse about Makeup, 1996 in Ethnos.

Introduction to Sociolinguistics | LSA.314
with Penelope Eckert
TR 10:10-11:50
Six Week Course