brandonjmartinez

Brandon J. Martínez is a second year doctoral student in Spanish Linguistics. A native New Mexican, he graduated from the University of New Mexico in 2021 with an MA in Linguistics, and in 2017 with a BA in Linguistics & Languages, with an emphasis on Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. His primary research interest is the sociocultural linguistics of Traditional New Mexican Spanish and other Borderlands dialects, taking perspectives from usage-based, translanguaging, Marxist, and Chicano theories. His current projects revolve around sociolinguistic variation in New Mexico, tag questions and discourse markers in southern Arizona, and the semiotic work involved in the persona construction of cholas on YouTube.