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Luis Aviles Gonzalez

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Luis F. Avilés González is a Chicano sociolinguist and a proud first generation trasnfronterizx from the San Ysidro-Tijuana borderlands. His work seeks to (i) document local varieties of Spanish spoken along the United States Southwest; (ii) advance the study of Spanish as a Heritage Language as an emerging linguistic variety -- product of English and Spanish Contact; and (iii) promote Chicanx/Latinx Cultural productions as part of a growing intellectual tradition. Ultimately, his work challenges hegemonic linguistic stances that elevate some language varieties while stigmatizing others.

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Activities & Interests

· Spanish in the United States

· Sociophonetics

· Language Variation and Change

· Spanish as a Heritage Language

· Mexican American/Chicanx/Latinx Language and Popular Culture

· Indigenous Languages of the Americas (Nahuatl, Maya K’iché)

· Digital Humanities

· Language and Computers

· Language Documentation & Revitalization

Academic Work

Aviles Gonzalez, L.F. (Under Contract) Pus ‘ta Cabrón- Variation of the Discourse Marker pues in Southern San Diego. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Romance Linguistics. John Benjamins.

Aviles Gonzalez, L.F., Nicole Larrondo & Vera Burrows (under contract) A Computational Case Study of Modernity in Latin American Presidential Speeches (2010-2021). International Journal of Digital Humanities.

Aviles Gonzalez, L.F. (under revision) Sociolinguistic variation in the discourse marker pues: observing the rise of pus in Mexico City Spanish. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics.

Public Scholarship

Aviles Gonzalez, L.F. (Coord. 2023). CHLX 2315: The US-Mexico Borderlands: Experiential Learning for Social Justice.

Avilés González, L.F., Berguson , K., Bishop, L., Colcher, D., Lawrance, A., O’Connor, G. (2020) Digital Exhibit: Spanish in Contact.

Courses 2023-2024

· AN260/FG206: Language and Gender

· AN308/SW200/SP308: Latinxs, Language and Culture in the Southwest

· AN105: Language and Culture

· AN258: Intro to Linguistics

Education

Ph.D. Iberian and Latin American Languages and Cultures, The University of Texas at Austin, 2023 (Certification in Digital Studies, Mexican American Studies, and Native American and Indigenous Studies)

M.A. Iberian and Latin American Languages and Cultures, The University of Texas at Austin, 2020

M.A. Spanish, California State University, Fullerton, 2015

B.A. History (Honors) and Spanish, University of California, Los Angeles, 2009

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