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1 of January 2007
Isolda E. Carranza did her PhD in linguistics at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. in 1996. She is a researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, and an associate linguistics professor at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina.
In the research that she has conducted in her country and abroad, Carranza has dealt with Classroom Discourse and spontaneous conversation in Conversation and deixis of discourse (1998). She has also contributed to Linguistics and the Education of Language Teachers: Ethnolinguistic, Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Aspects (1995) and the Journal of Oralia (2000). Within the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis, Carranza has studied narrative intersection, oral argumentation and ideological perspectives in journals. This was informed in Narrative Inquiry (1998 y 2000) and in Discourse & Society (1999).
Her interest in objects of study such as institutional field,
practices and social field has been applied to oral juridical
discourse. Those are the issues that she has addressed in her
contributions to Social Change and Law: Debates y propuestas sociológicas en los inicios del siglo XXI (2001), Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish (2004) and Politeness in the Spanish-speaking World (2005) and to the journal Narrative Inquiry (2003).