Francisco Moreno Fernández (Linguist)

Francisco Moreno-Fernández

Francisco Moreno Fernández (born 1960 in Mota del Cuervo , Province of Cuenca ) is a Spanish language geographer and sociolinguist .

Career

Moreno Fernández has a doctorate in Hispanics and is a professor at the University of Alcalá (Spain) and Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the University of Heidelberg . When he took up his professorship awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and endowed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research , he took over the management of the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS). His main research interests are in the areas of sociolinguistics, linguistic geography and applied linguistics . He was Academic Director of the Instituto Cervantes (2008–2013) and visiting scholar at the Universities of London, New York ( SUNY - Albany), Québec (Montreal) and Tokyo as well as visiting professor at the Universities of Gothenburg ( Sweden ), São Paulo ( Brazil ) and Chicago ( USA ), Brigham Young ( USA ) and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile .

He is a full member of the North American Academy of Spanish Language (since 2017) and a corresponding member of the Academies of Spanish Language in Cuba (since 2013), Spain (since 2015), Chile (since 2017) and Mexico (since 2018).

Francisco Moreno-Fernández was director of the Instituto Cervantes in São Paulo (1998–2001) and in Chicago (2001–2005). He was Academic Director and Head of Research at the Comillas Foundation for the Promotion of Spanish Language and Culture (2006-2008) and Director of the Instituto Cervantes at Harvard University (Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States) (2013-2018) .

In 1998 he coordinated the first yearbook of the Instituto Cervantes El español en el mundo . He has published articles in numerous American Spanish-language newspapers: La Opinión (Los Angeles), El Diario. La Prensa (New York) and La Raza (Chicago). He is co-editor of the international journals Spanish in Context (John Benjamin) and Journal of Linguistic Geography (Cambridge University Press), founder and first director of the journal Lengua y migración / Language & Migration, and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language , Journal of Linguistic Geography , Journal of World Languages , Boletín de Filología de la Universidad de Chile , Lingüística Española Actual , Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana and Oralia .

Books

as editor: El español lengua migratoria, Vol. Monográfico Archiletras Científica , II, 2020. ISSN: 2659-8957 .
with Inmaculada Penadés Martínez and Clara Ureña Tormo: Gramática fundamental del español , London, Routledge, 2020, ISBN 978-1-138-35961-1 .
Variedades de la lengua española , London, Routledge, 2020, ISBN 978-1-138-38595-5 .
Tras Babel. De la naturaleza social del lenguaje. Ediciones Nobel, Oviedo 2018, ISBN 978-84-8459-750-6 .
Diccionario de anglicismos del español estadounidense. Instituto Cervantes at Harvard, Cambridge, MA 2018, ISBN 978-0-692-04726-2 .
A Framework for Cognitive Sociolinguistics. Routledge, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-138-68198-9 .
La maravillosa historia del español. Espasa, Madrid 2015, ISBN 978-84-670-4427-0 .
Spanish Revolution. Ensayo sobre los lenguajes indignados. Unoycero, Valencia 2014, ISBN 978-84-942609-3-3 .
with F. Ramallo: Las lenguas de España a debate. Unoycero, Valencia 2013, ISBN 978-84-941776-6-8 .
Sociolingüística cognitiva. Vervuert, Frankfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-86527-742-8 .
Las variedades de la lengua española y su enseñanza. Arco / Libros, Madrid 2010, ISBN 978-84-7635-802-3 .
La lengua española en su geografía. Manual de dialectología hispánica. 2nd, revised edition. Arco / Libros, Madrid 2014, ISBN 978-84-7635-783-5 .
with J. Otero: Atlas de la lengua española en el mundo. 3rd, revised edition. Ariel, Barcelona 2017, ISBN 978-84-08-16664-1 .
as publisher: Sociolinguistics of Spanish in Spain: the bilingual areas. In: International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 2007. ISSN 0165-2516 .
with J. Otero: Demografía de la lengua española. Fundación Telefónica - Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales, Madrid 2007, ISBN 978-84-611-5071-7 .
Principios de Sociolingüística y Sociología del Lenguaje. 3. Edition. Ariel, Barcelona 2008, ISBN 978-84-344-8264-7 .
Historia social de las lenguas de España. Ariel, Barcelona 2005, ISBN 84-344-8263-0 .
with A. Cestero, I. Molina and F. Paredes: La lengua hablada en Alcalá de Henares. Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares 2004-2007, ISBN 978-84-8138-535-9 .
Diccionario bilingüe de uso Español - Portugués / Portugués- Español. 2nd Edition. Arco / Libros, Madrid 2005, ISBN 84-7635-545-9 .
Producción, expresión e interacción oral. Madrid: Arco / Libros, 2002, ISBN 84-7635-487-8 .
Qué español enseñar. 2nd version. Arco / Libros, Madrid 2007, ISBN 978-84-7635-447-6 .
(dir.) Diccionario para la Enseñanza de la Lengua Española. Biblograf, Barcelona 1995, ISBN 84-8332-111-4 .
La division dialectal del español de America. Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares 1993, ISBN 84-86981-83-2 .
as Ed .: Sociolinguistics and Stylistic Variation. In: Lynx. 1992, ISSN 0214-4611 .
Metodología sociolingüística. Gredos, Madrid 1990, ISBN 84-249-1433-3 .

Prizes and awards

Voto de Louvor da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2000)
"National Association of Hispanic Publications". First place. Multiple Article Series, Larger Publications (Las Vegas, USA; March 2003)
15th research award "Juan Martín de Nicolás" (2006)
National Essay Prize Finalist. Spain (2016)
Honorary doctorate from the Universidad Ricardo Palma (Peru) (2017)
15. "Rey de España" Journalist Prize Don Quijote (Spain) (2018)
Instituto Cervantes Medal (2019)
Awardee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2020)

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personal data
SURNAME	Moreno Fernández, Francisco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish language geographer and sociolinguist
DATE OF BIRTH	1960
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mota del Cuervo , Province of Cuenca