Deyanira Rojas-Sosa
Biographic Data
| ID | 6566413 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deyanira Rojas-Sosa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deyanira |
| FAMILY NAME | Rojas-Sosa |
| SIGNATURE | ROJAS-SOSA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY New Paltz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Should Latinas go blond?’ Media representation and the regulation of Latina bodies and Latinas’ social and cultural practices in a beauty magazine
In the United States, ‘Latinas’ is an ethnic category that includes a very diverse population. Since second- and third-generation Latinxs tend to be Englishdominant speakers, it is common to see publications in English that target this group. This study analyses how one of these publications, a beauty magazine for Latinas, uses different linguistic devices in their interviews and beauty advice columns to create a racially/ethnically homogeneous i…
Girly Latina versus girly American’
The construction of gender and race are constantly negotiated by community members, and both categories affect the way speakers see themselves and others. By analysing a Latina student’s narrative, this study explores how she articulates through the use of several indexical processes, not only her own identity but also her friend’s, in order to explain how their classmates perceive them. In this narrative, the speaker explains how different level…
Busco una mujer de verdad
Gender performativity theory considers that gender is not a natural consequence of people’s bodies, but a series of repeated acts regulated by social constraints that one performs to create a natural, usually heterosexual, being. Through the analysis of the conceptual metaphor gender is a performance in Spanish Internet personal ads, this study shows linguistic evidence that speakers, ad posters, are aware of the performative nature of gender, an…
The denial of racism in Latina/o students’ narratives about discrimination in the classroom
This study examines how Latina/o students perceive and frame experiences of prejudice against them in the classroom through narratives told in informal interviews in Spanish. This project started as an inquiry about these students’ general perceptions and experiences in their Advanced Spanish-language classes and how these compared to their experiences in other classes on campus. Narratives are essential to understanding how speakers perceive and…
Traditional and not so traditional metaphors of love in Spanish
Metaphors about love in online dating advertisements might seem to be an easy and inconsequential way to express people’s romantic expectations. Using Critical Metaphor Analysis methodology, this paper takes a closer look at a sample of love metaphors used by Spanish-speaking heterosexual ad posters, to show how they use the metaphors to create a discourse of traditional romance in a modern medium, the online dating world. These metaphors are pow…
The denial of racism in Latina/o students’ narratives about discrimination in the classroom
This study examines how Latina/o students perceive and frame experiences of prejudice against them in the classroom through narratives told in informal interviews in Spanish. This project started as an inquiry about these students’ general perceptions and experiences in their Advanced Spanish-language classes and how these compared to their experiences in other classes on campus. Narratives are essential to understanding how speakers perceive and…
Should Latinas go blond?’ Media representation and the regulation of Latina bodies and Latinas’ social and cultural practices in a beauty magazine
In the United States, ‘Latinas’ is an ethnic category that includes a very diverse population. Since second- and third-generation Latinxs tend to be Englishdominant speakers, it is common to see publications in English that target this group. This study analyses how one of these publications, a beauty magazine for Latinas, uses different linguistic devices in their interviews and beauty advice columns to create a racially/ethnically homogeneous i…
Traditional and not so traditional metaphors of love in Spanish
Metaphors about love in online dating advertisements might seem to be an easy and inconsequential way to express people’s romantic expectations. Using Critical Metaphor Analysis methodology, this paper takes a closer look at a sample of love metaphors used by Spanish-speaking heterosexual ad posters, to show how they use the metaphors to create a discourse of traditional romance in a modern medium, the online dating world. These metaphors are pow…
The denial of racism in Latina/o students’ narratives about discrimination in the classroom
This study examines how Latina/o students perceive and frame experiences of prejudice against them in the classroom through narratives told in informal interviews in Spanish. This project started as an inquiry about these students’ general perceptions and experiences in their Advanced Spanish-language classes and how these compared to their experiences in other classes on campus. Narratives are essential to understanding how speakers perceive and…
Busco una mujer de verdad
Gender performativity theory considers that gender is not a natural consequence of people’s bodies, but a series of repeated acts regulated by social constraints that one performs to create a natural, usually heterosexual, being. Through the analysis of the conceptual metaphor gender is a performance in Spanish Internet personal ads, this study shows linguistic evidence that speakers, ad posters, are aware of the performative nature of gender, an…
Girly Latina versus girly American’
The construction of gender and race are constantly negotiated by community members, and both categories affect the way speakers see themselves and others. By analysing a Latina student’s narrative, this study explores how she articulates through the use of several indexical processes, not only her own identity but also her friend’s, in order to explain how their classmates perceive them. In this narrative, the speaker explains how different level…
Should Latinas go blond?’ Media representation and the regulation of Latina bodies and Latinas’ social and cultural practices in a beauty magazine
In the United States, ‘Latinas’ is an ethnic category that includes a very diverse population. Since second- and third-generation Latinxs tend to be Englishdominant speakers, it is common to see publications in English that target this group. This study analyses how one of these publications, a beauty magazine for Latinas, uses different linguistic devices in their interviews and beauty advice columns to create a racially/ethnically homogeneous i…
Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Ideology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)