Hate & Innuendo

The Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series on Language Discrimination in Fragile Communities and the FOCUS Program are pleased to present:

Hate & Innuendo

Featuring:
Professor Norma Mendoza-Denton (UCLA, Linguistic Anthropologist)

It will take place on Friday, October 14th at 5:30 pm in 153 Rubenstein Library.

Light refreshments provided.

Norma Mendoza-Denton is a professor of anthropology at UCLA. Her research focuses on youth, language, migration, politics, and identity. Though her original training is in sociophonetics, she has conducted research among Latina girls involved in gangs, politicians in Town Hall meetings, children in school settings, and young adults playing videogames. Prof. Mendoza-Denton is also co-editor (with Janet McIntosh) of Language in the Trump Era: Scandals and Emergencies (2020), Cambridge University Press