Domnita Dumitrescu received her PhD from the University of Southern California. She is Professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at California State University, Los Angeles. Her research interests are Spanish pragmatics and sociolinguistics, Spanish in the United States, contact phenomena between Spanish and English in the United States, and contrastive analysis of Spanish and Romanian at different levels. She has published more than one hundred studies in her areas of expertise, which have appeared in numerous scholarly publications in Europe, Latin America, and the United States, and she has translated into Romanian several major literary works by Spanish authors.

Domnita Dumitrescu received her PhD from the University of Southern California. She is Professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at California State University, Los Angeles. Her research interests are Spanish pragmatics and sociolinguistics, Spanish in the United States, contact phenomena between Spanish and English in the United States, and contrastive analysis of Spanish and Romanian at different levels. She has published more than one hundred studies in her areas of expertise, which have appeared in numerous scholarly publications in Europe, Latin America, and the United States, and she has translated into Romanian several major literary works by Spanish authors.

Domnita Dumitrescu received her PhD from the University of Southern California. She is Professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at California State University, Los Angeles. Her research interests are Spanish pragmatics and sociolinguistics, Spanish in the United States, contact phenomena between Spanish and English in the United States, and contrastive analysis of Spanish and Romanian at different levels. She has published more than one hundred studies in her areas of expertise, which have appeared in numerous scholarly publications in Europe, Latin America, and the United States, and she has translated into Romanian several major literary works by Spanish authors.