Dr. Luana Ferreira is a linguist and educator currently serving as the Director of Student Affairs at the Bronx Educational Opportunity Center, SUNY. Most recently, Ferreira is the author of Densidad l茅xica en la prensa hisp谩nica de los EE. UU. e Hispanoam茅rica: un estudio comparativo published by Editorial Pliegos in 2021. As a 2022 CUNY DSI Research Fellow, Dr. Ferreira will directly engage the following observation put forth by Philosopher and Essayist Pedro Henr铆quez Ure帽a in the 1940鈥檚, which contends that Dominican Spanish 鈥減resenta como rasgos distintivos la conservaci贸n de la lengua tradicional con matices antiguos y hasta arcaicos m谩s abundantes que en ning煤n otro pa铆s del Nuevo Mundo.鈥 Dr. Ferreira鈥檚 project, Don Quixote de La Mancha: Resonancias l茅xicas y fraseol贸gicas en el espa帽ol dominicano actual, examines the persistence of XVII century Spanish linguistics in contemporary Dominican Spanish, both in the Dominican Republic and in the U.S.
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