Verónica Loureiro-Rodríguez

• PhD, University of California, Davis 
• MA, University of Colorado at Boulder 
• BA, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela 

Research interests

• Sociolinguistics
• Language and identity
• Language attitudes
• Code-switching
• Global hip hop

Research affiliations/groups

• Academic Director - Centre for Social Science Research and Policy, University of Manitoba

• Alice Coates, MA thesis, "Adult attitudes towards Dene Yati/Zhatié: a community questionnaire." 2025.
  Keywords: Canada, Northwest Territories, language attitudes, language revitalization, language vitality, Indigenous
• Michele Pesch-Johnson, MA thesis, “But when it's there, like, more mouths [...] that's like ‘Oh, I'm actually kind of low key sad’”: an investigation into the pragmatics of emoticon lengthening." 2024.
  Keywords: emoticon, linguistics, computer-mediated communication, paralinguistics, corpus
• Erin Unrau, MA thesis, "That's just not me": stylistic language and authentic dialectic identity in Canadian women MCs." 2023.
  Keywords: Canadian Hip-Hop, women MCs, multiculturalism, strategic authenticity, identity, sexuality
• Cristina Acauan Dreyer, MA thesis, "Addressing others in Gauchês: forms of address in traditional Gaucho songs from Southern Brazil." 2021. 
  Kewords: Second person address, Social variation, Brazilian Portuguese, Regional dialect, Regional music
• Maria Rodrigo-Tamarit, MA thesis, "Attitudes towards French, English and code-switching in Manitoba." 2020.
  Keywords: Canada, Attitudes, French, English, Code-switching, matched-guise test

• 2021 - Teaching Excellence Award (Established Faculty), Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba