34.1413, Rising Star: Mariana Ortiz Ponce

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-1413. Fri May 05 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.1413, Rising Star: Mariana Ortiz Ponce

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Date: 04-May-2023
From: Lauren Perkins [lauren at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Rising Star: Mariana Ortiz Ponce


During our annual Fund Drive, we like to feature undergraduate and MA
students who have gone above and beyond the classroom to participate
in the wider field of linguistics. Selected nominees exemplify a
commitment to not only academic performance, but also to the field of
linguistics and principles of scientific inquiry. Since this year’s
Fund Drive theme is Future tense, we are especially thankful to be
able to highlight undergraduate and MA students who are emerging as
the future leaders in our field.

Today’s Rising Star is Mariana Ortiz Ponce, an undergraduate student
at Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. Mariana was
nominated by her mentor, Dr. Andrés López Avila.

Mariana Ortiz is a brilliant senior student. She has specialized in
the study of the linguistic characteristics of feminist discourse; in
particular, she works on feminist slogans and mottos from a
multidisciplinary perspective. In addition to carrying out a formal
linguistic study, her work is a way of documenting linguistic-artistic
expressions of dissidence, especially on the discourse of women. This
makes her work doubly important: she explains the linguistic traits
but also leaves a lasting transcription of texts full of art that are
often in danger, because the medium is the skin, the screams, the
banners, the paint on the walls. I think that Mariana is a linguist,
an art curator and a social cause worker. She is amazing.

She also studies the link between language and identity and has
proposed in an original way the theory that sorority and slogans are
the cause and consequence of one another in a cycle that feeds and
grows on itself. This proposal seems very valuable to me.

Mariana is a very sensitive and eloquent researcher. She has presented
at international conferences and has received personal invitations to
exhibit her work at universities in Mexico. Her scope of work is not
just academic. She has taken her research to forums that raise
awareness about the importance of the gender perspective in language
studies. She is a feminist who helps train other feminists and helps
empowerment. She is a linguist who documents the very complex texts of
feminist slogans and mottos, preserving them for other generations,
revaluing and protecting them. I believe that his work will also be
important in the future as a historical document of the social
movements in Mexico. Mariana Ortiz is undoubtedly a star who
participates in the social, academic and artistic spheres.

Mariana writes:

I think that linguistics has a lot of opportunities for future study
due to the constant changes that languages face. I have recently been
learning about forensic linguistics and I consider it a way to combine
linguistics and law in a way in which both disciplines nourish each
other.
For example, in the resolution of legal cases, on many occasions
lawyers can rely on linguists who are experts in the forensic field to
study the messages and letters from the suspects. They provide support
on the syntax, spelling and style of the people involved in the case
and they can study details that other people who do not specialize in
that field would not notice or could disregard.

In addition to having its field of study in society, linguistics has
to be updated and adapted to innovations, technologies, among other
social changes.
Personally, I am interested in gender issues and I think that
linguistics can be studied from gender perspectives in a very broad
way. I focus my study on feminist issues but there is a whole process
of social deconstruction in which linguistics is involved through
terminology, definitions, new semantic approaches to words and
different interpretations from pragmatics. The process of
deconstruction, explained in my own words, is a constant
self-diagnosis of our ideology, judgments about society, stereotypes,
customs and even gender roles. In general, to deconstruct is to
question and rethink what we believe and how we act. As I mentioned
before, societies are constantly changing and language is part of
those changes from a cognitive perspective.

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