Jhonni Rochelle Charisse Carr, PhD

 I am a Spanish sociolinguist whose research examines how linguistic visibility in public and institutional spaces shapes social belonging, access, and power. Drawing on mixed methods, I study the linguistic landscape—the displayed language of public space—to analyze Spanish and other minoritized languages in multilingual communities across California, Mexico, and Brazil. My work integrates large-scale quantitative analyses of urban signage with community-based interviews to investigate linguistic accessibility and the social consequences of language presence and absence, situating these patterns within broader questions of language justice. My current book project examines language attitudes and regional variation in the Spanish linguistic landscape of Los Angeles.