1 January of 2007
Teresa Oteíza
Teresa Oteíza S. is
a Spanish professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She
holds a master’s degree in humanities with a linguistics major at the
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She also has a Ph.D. in
Spanish Linguistics, University of California at Davis, US.
Oteíza has worked as a linguistics professor at Eastern
Washington University (US), at the University of Concepción and at the
Austral University of Chile. She is currently an associate professor at
the Faculty of Humanities at the Pontifical Catholic University of
Chile.
Among her latest works, she has published: “Evaluative patterns in the
official discourse of Human Rights in Chile: giving value to the past
and building historical memories in society”, Delta 25, 609-640;
“Solidaridad ideológica en el discurso de la historia: tensión entre
orientaciones monoglósicas y heteroglósicas.” (Ideological solidarity
in historical discourse: Tension between monoglossic and heteroglossic
orientations) Signos journal. Linguistic Studies 42 (70):
219-244. “Agency, Responsibility and Silence in the Construction
of Contemporary History in Chile and Spain” in collaboration with
Derrin Pinto. Discourse & Society 19(3), 333-358; “In whatever
language people feel comfortable”: conflicting language ideologies in
the U.S. Southwest border”, together with Mariana Achugar, Text &
Talk 29 (4), 371-391; El discurso pedagógico de la historia. Un
análisis lingüístico sobre la reconstrucción ideológica de la historia
de Chile (Pedagogical Discourse in history. A linguistic analysis about
the ideological construction in the history of Chile) (1970-2001),
Santiago: Frasis Editors.
She has given postgraduate speeches at the University of
Concepción, at the Austral University of Chile and at the Catholic
University of Temuco. Since October 2009 she is a regional
representative of Chile in ALED.
Email:
moteizas@uc.cl