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Tolton, Dr. Laura

laura tolton

Assistant Professor, International StudiesFaculty of Arts & Design

Bldg, Floor & Room: 20, C16
Telephone: (02) 6201 2826
Facsimile: (02) 6201 2649
Laura.Tolton@canberra.edu.au

Areas of Teaching

  • Laura is teaching in communication and international studies.  She has enjoyed teaching conversation, reading, writing, grammar, phonetics and culture, as well as intercultural communication and translation in Spanish and English at universities in Colombia and Australia.   

Research Interests

  • Laura’s research interests include critical discourse studies, gender and women’s studies, media studies, intercultural communication, and Hispanic studies.   Her PhD focused on ideology and discourse legitimating wife abuse and street harassment in Colombian newspaper internet forums.  Currently she is working on a project about mediatised social representations of birth.

Qualifications Obtained

  • PhD in Spanish Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia)
    Thesis: Legitimation of violence against women in Colombia: A feminist critical discourse analytic study
  • Master’s in Spanish Linguistics (Seminario Andrés Bello, Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Bogotá, Colombia)
    Thesis: El lenguaje y la facultad cultural [The faculties of language and culture]
  • Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, Spanish, Hispanic Studies, Women’s Studies (St Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, United States)

Recent Publications

  • (2013). Porque te quiero te aporreo: los refranes como estrategia discursiva para la legitimación del maltrato conyugal. [Because I love you I beat you: sayings as a discursive strategy in the legitimation of wife abuse.] Discurso & Sociedad. Special issue on discourses of exclusion and violence. Vol. 7(1), 310-337.
  • (2012). Las mujeres entrelazamos tradición, intuición y conocimiento para un parto con amor. [As women we weave together tradition, intuition and knowledge for birthing with love.] ¿Las mujeres reinventamos el mundo? [As women are we reinventing the world?] En Otras Palabras. Grupo Mujer y Sociedad de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Vol. 20.
  • (2012). Birth in Colombia: A technocratic model in a collectivistic culture. Birth Matters. 16(2), 5-8.
  • (2011). “He beat her so hard she fell head over heels”: Normalising wife abuse in Colombia. In D. Majstorovic and I. Lassen, Eds. Living with patriarchy – Discursive constructions of gendered subjects across cultures. (pp. 17-48) Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • (2011). El contraste como estrategia discursiva para minimizar la violencia contra la mujer en el contexto colombiano. [Contrast as a discursive strategy to minimise violence against women in the Colombian context]  In J. Ruiz Celis, Ed. Aproximaciones interdisciplinares al estado de los estudios del discurso [Interdisciplinary approaches to the state of discourse studies].  (pp. 53-74) Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Instituto de Estudios en Comunicación y Cultura. 
  • (2007). La legitimación en un foro en línea de El Tiempo: El caso del mensajero manoseador y su condena de cuatro años. [Legitimation in an online El Tiempo forum: The case of the groping messenger and his four year sentence; Conference proceedings CD] VII Congreso Latinoamericano de Estudios del Discurso, Horizontes de Sentido. Bogotá, Colombia.

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