Rosa H. Yáñez Rosales

Rosa H. Yáñez Rosales, from Mexico, received her Ph.D. from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 1997. She is currently Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Guadalajara. Her research focuses on issues of Anthropological Linguistics, Language Policies in Mexico during the Colonial period, Nahuatl dialectology, and Nahuatl legal and evangelization texts. Her recent publications include: Rostro, palabra y memoria indígenas. El occidente colonial, 1524-1816 (CIESAS/INI, 2001); Guerra espiritual y resistencia indígena. El discurso de evangelización en el obispado de Guadalajara, 1541-1765 (University of Guadalajara Press, 2002), and has co-edited the Diccionario náhuatl-español, español-náhuatl para niños (University of Guadalajara Press/Secretaría de Cultura/Secretaría de Educación, 2007).