Guillermina Gina Núñez
Biographic Data
| ID | 81475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guillermina Gina Núñez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guillermina Gina |
| FAMILY NAME | Núñez |
| SIGNATURE | NÚÑEZ G G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2039-4361 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
By the Bonfire's Light
The Literary Landscape for Twentieth-Century Spanish-Speaking LDS Poets
Spanish is the second-most spoken language among Latter-day Saints, but relatively little is known about Mormon literature in this language, either its current status or its history. This absence is evident in the key surveys on Mormon literature that have been carried out. For example, when Eugene England considered the prospects of Mormon literature in his landmark essay on its history and future, he looked ahead at a mostly US-centric and full…
A translated town? Translation in the linguistic landscape along the US border with Mexico
Cities are the hubs of the modern world and, in border towns between states where different languages are used, these hubs are bilingual. Such bilingual towns offer opportunities to examine the extent to which translation, including the decision not to translate, plays a role in shaping the public spaces of cities. This article seeks to do so by reporting on a linguistic landscape study carried out in Brownsville, a city that sits on the Texas bo…
The way we do our translation’
Signs in public spaces can provide essential information. Especially at times of crises, and in places where there are large populations who speak a minoritized language, translation is often employed to create multilingual signage for the benefit of the community. After all, translated signs appear because some authority considers that a certain message is important enough to be visibly communicated to the public, including those who do not spea…
Make a reasonable effort”
Language plays a key role in democracy. In fact, the role of language in democratic societies is so crucial that scholars have addressed it thoroughly through different lenses, ranging from law to language policy. This article, in turn, seeks to add to the scholarship on democracy and language rights by considering the role of translation policy in the development of linguistically inclusive public web pages. To that end, the study considers the …
Política de Tradução em um mundo linguisticamente diverso
Na Europa, as políticas relacionadas às antigas línguas minoritárias (línguas minoritárias "regionais") e novas línguas minoritárias (línguas "imigrantes") são diferentes, fato este observado na política linguística de grande parte do continente. Contudo, a distinção entre falantes que pertencem às antigas minorias e aqueles que pertencem às novas minorias pode ser questionada ou, pelo menos, pode-se contestar a existência de abordagens políticas…
The shape of translation policy
The idea that there is something scholars can call “translation policy” has existed since the very early days of the field. As studies continue to spring forward, new perspectives continue to help our understanding of how translation policy evolves. Generally speaking, these studies tend to look closely at the role that the authorities play in shaping translation policy. Such an approach has led to useful insights, and for the foreseeable future,…
Traducciones para y por los españoles americanos
Consabido es que la emancipación política del continente americano supuso un proceso largo y violento en que las colonias se fueron desprendiendo de sus respectivas metrópolis. Los distintos revolucionarios, patriotas y libertadores actuaron en su contexto colonial inmediato, y sin embargo, existió a lo largo de toda América un caudal de ideas compartidas que sirvieron, sobre todo, para justificar dichas acciones. Estas ideas, surgidas en gran me…
No language policy without translation policy
A major challenge for authorities in the modern world is the linguistic integration of minorities. In this context, language policies play a key role as authorities are increasingly faced with the challenge of adjusting their language policies in order to secure the linguistic rights and thus the integration of their multilingual populations. In multilingual democracies, these language policies must include choices about the use or non-use of tra…
Work placements in doctoral research training in the humanities
Research cooperation between academic and nonacademic institutions tends not to concern the humanities, where mutual financial rewards are mostly not in evidence. The study of eight nonacademic placements of doctoral researchers working on interlingual translation nevertheless indicates some degree of success. It is found that the placements lead to ongoing cooperation when the following conditions are met: 1) the nature of the placement is under…
Engaging Scholarship With Communities
A pedagogy of engagement links faculty and students to the needs of local communities while promoting academic success through higher retention and graduation rates in higher education. This work describes engaged scholarship and shares guidelines for documenting student engagement and critical reflection across the higher education curriculum. Insights and recommendations are based on 8 years of engaged scholarship efforts at a Hispanic Serving …
Translating for linguistic minorities in Northern Ireland
Europe as a multilingual continent hosts three main types of languages: dominant languages, autochthonous minority languages, and new minority languages. From a policy standpoint, planning for speakers of these languages and their needs become a complex matter in which many actors with different interests are involved. Of the many issues which policy-makers must deal with, the role of translation is often unexplored. However, in any multilingual …
Healthcare Access and Barriers for Unauthorized Immigrants in El Paso County, Texas
This article presents a large body of qualitative material on healthcare access and barriers for unauthorized immigrants living in the US-Mexico borderlands. The focus is on active sequences of health-seeking behavior and barriers encountered in them. Barriers include direct legal mandates, fear of authorities, obstacles to movement by immigration law enforcement, interaction of unauthorized legal status with workplace and household relations, an…
Engaging With the Immigrant Human Rights Movement in a Besieged Border Region
Engagement with immigration goes beyond work directly with immigrants to include involvement in the immigration policy process. The chapter describes work on immigration and human rights policy grounded in issues facing the U.S.-Mexico border region. A policy coalition with regional and national presence, the Border and Immigration Task Force, combines an organized social movement with bases in immigrant communities with a diverse policy coalitio…
The Border Poll Crew
Understanding the cultural and linguistic dynamics between voters and poll workers is helpful in training and incorporating bilingual poll workers in the electoral process. The November 2006 mid-term elections required an estimated 1.5 million poll workers nationwide. National Public Radio's Pam Fessler (October 2006) reported on how the increase use of voting technology has contributed to the complexity and challenges of hiring well-trained elec…
Entrapment Processes and Immigrant Communities in a Time of Heightened Border Vigilance
In processes of entrapment, police and other state agencies impose significant risk to moving around, while people themselves exercise various forms of agency by both limiting themselves and covertly defying movement controls. Recent US immigration and border enforcement policy has entrapped undocumented immigrants, in particular on the United States side of the USMexico border region. We explore how to operationalize this “macro” pattern in ethn…
Pachangas
Engaging With the Immigrant Human Rights Movement in a Besieged Border Region
Engagement with immigration goes beyond work directly with immigrants to include involvement in the immigration policy process. The chapter describes work on immigration and human rights policy grounded in issues facing the U.S.-Mexico border region. A policy coalition with regional and national presence, the Border and Immigration Task Force, combines an organized social movement with bases in immigrant communities with a diverse policy coalitio…
No language policy without translation policy
A major challenge for authorities in the modern world is the linguistic integration of minorities. In this context, language policies play a key role as authorities are increasingly faced with the challenge of adjusting their language policies in order to secure the linguistic rights and thus the integration of their multilingual populations. In multilingual democracies, these language policies must include choices about the use or non-use of tra…
Translating for linguistic minorities in Northern Ireland
Europe as a multilingual continent hosts three main types of languages: dominant languages, autochthonous minority languages, and new minority languages. From a policy standpoint, planning for speakers of these languages and their needs become a complex matter in which many actors with different interests are involved. Of the many issues which policy-makers must deal with, the role of translation is often unexplored. However, in any multilingual …
Engaging Scholarship With Communities
A pedagogy of engagement links faculty and students to the needs of local communities while promoting academic success through higher retention and graduation rates in higher education. This work describes engaged scholarship and shares guidelines for documenting student engagement and critical reflection across the higher education curriculum. Insights and recommendations are based on 8 years of engaged scholarship efforts at a Hispanic Serving …
Entrapment Processes and Immigrant Communities in a Time of Heightened Border Vigilance
In processes of entrapment, police and other state agencies impose significant risk to moving around, while people themselves exercise various forms of agency by both limiting themselves and covertly defying movement controls. Recent US immigration and border enforcement policy has entrapped undocumented immigrants, in particular on the United States side of the USMexico border region. We explore how to operationalize this “macro” pattern in ethn…
Pachangas
The Border Poll Crew
Understanding the cultural and linguistic dynamics between voters and poll workers is helpful in training and incorporating bilingual poll workers in the electoral process. The November 2006 mid-term elections required an estimated 1.5 million poll workers nationwide. National Public Radio's Pam Fessler (October 2006) reported on how the increase use of voting technology has contributed to the complexity and challenges of hiring well-trained elec…
Healthcare Access and Barriers for Unauthorized Immigrants in El Paso County, Texas
This article presents a large body of qualitative material on healthcare access and barriers for unauthorized immigrants living in the US-Mexico borderlands. The focus is on active sequences of health-seeking behavior and barriers encountered in them. Barriers include direct legal mandates, fear of authorities, obstacles to movement by immigration law enforcement, interaction of unauthorized legal status with workplace and household relations, an…
Engaging With the Immigrant Human Rights Movement in a Besieged Border Region
Engagement with immigration goes beyond work directly with immigrants to include involvement in the immigration policy process. The chapter describes work on immigration and human rights policy grounded in issues facing the U.S.-Mexico border region. A policy coalition with regional and national presence, the Border and Immigration Task Force, combines an organized social movement with bases in immigrant communities with a diverse policy coalitio…
Translating for linguistic minorities in Northern Ireland
Europe as a multilingual continent hosts three main types of languages: dominant languages, autochthonous minority languages, and new minority languages. From a policy standpoint, planning for speakers of these languages and their needs become a complex matter in which many actors with different interests are involved. Of the many issues which policy-makers must deal with, the role of translation is often unexplored. However, in any multilingual …
Work placements in doctoral research training in the humanities
Research cooperation between academic and nonacademic institutions tends not to concern the humanities, where mutual financial rewards are mostly not in evidence. The study of eight nonacademic placements of doctoral researchers working on interlingual translation nevertheless indicates some degree of success. It is found that the placements lead to ongoing cooperation when the following conditions are met: 1) the nature of the placement is under…
Engaging Scholarship With Communities
A pedagogy of engagement links faculty and students to the needs of local communities while promoting academic success through higher retention and graduation rates in higher education. This work describes engaged scholarship and shares guidelines for documenting student engagement and critical reflection across the higher education curriculum. Insights and recommendations are based on 8 years of engaged scholarship efforts at a Hispanic Serving …
Traducciones para y por los españoles americanos
Consabido es que la emancipación política del continente americano supuso un proceso largo y violento en que las colonias se fueron desprendiendo de sus respectivas metrópolis. Los distintos revolucionarios, patriotas y libertadores actuaron en su contexto colonial inmediato, y sin embargo, existió a lo largo de toda América un caudal de ideas compartidas que sirvieron, sobre todo, para justificar dichas acciones. Estas ideas, surgidas en gran me…
No language policy without translation policy
A major challenge for authorities in the modern world is the linguistic integration of minorities. In this context, language policies play a key role as authorities are increasingly faced with the challenge of adjusting their language policies in order to secure the linguistic rights and thus the integration of their multilingual populations. In multilingual democracies, these language policies must include choices about the use or non-use of tra…
The shape of translation policy
The idea that there is something scholars can call “translation policy” has existed since the very early days of the field. As studies continue to spring forward, new perspectives continue to help our understanding of how translation policy evolves. Generally speaking, these studies tend to look closely at the role that the authorities play in shaping translation policy. Such an approach has led to useful insights, and for the foreseeable future,…
Política de Tradução em um mundo linguisticamente diverso
Na Europa, as políticas relacionadas às antigas línguas minoritárias (línguas minoritárias "regionais") e novas línguas minoritárias (línguas "imigrantes") são diferentes, fato este observado na política linguística de grande parte do continente. Contudo, a distinção entre falantes que pertencem às antigas minorias e aqueles que pertencem às novas minorias pode ser questionada ou, pelo menos, pode-se contestar a existência de abordagens políticas…
Make a reasonable effort”
Language plays a key role in democracy. In fact, the role of language in democratic societies is so crucial that scholars have addressed it thoroughly through different lenses, ranging from law to language policy. This article, in turn, seeks to add to the scholarship on democracy and language rights by considering the role of translation policy in the development of linguistically inclusive public web pages. To that end, the study considers the …
The Literary Landscape for Twentieth-Century Spanish-Speaking LDS Poets
Spanish is the second-most spoken language among Latter-day Saints, but relatively little is known about Mormon literature in this language, either its current status or its history. This absence is evident in the key surveys on Mormon literature that have been carried out. For example, when Eugene England considered the prospects of Mormon literature in his landmark essay on its history and future, he looked ahead at a mostly US-centric and full…
A translated town? Translation in the linguistic landscape along the US border with Mexico
Cities are the hubs of the modern world and, in border towns between states where different languages are used, these hubs are bilingual. Such bilingual towns offer opportunities to examine the extent to which translation, including the decision not to translate, plays a role in shaping the public spaces of cities. This article seeks to do so by reporting on a linguistic landscape study carried out in Brownsville, a city that sits on the Texas bo…
The way we do our translation’
Signs in public spaces can provide essential information. Especially at times of crises, and in places where there are large populations who speak a minoritized language, translation is often employed to create multilingual signage for the benefit of the community. After all, translated signs appear because some authority considers that a certain message is important enough to be visibly communicated to the public, including those who do not spea…
By the Bonfire's Light
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works)