Francisco Moreno-Fernández (born in Mota del Cuervo,

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, in 1960) is a Spanish

dialectologist Dialectology (from Greek , ''dialektos'', "talk, dialect"; and , '' -logia'') is the scientific study of dialects: subsets of languages. Though in the 19th century a branch of historical linguistics, dialectology is often now considered a sub-fiel ...

and

sociolinguist Sociolinguistics is the descriptive, scientific study of how language is shaped by, and used differently within, any given society. The field largely looks at how a language changes between distinct social groups, as well as how it varies under ...

Career

Moreno-Fernández holds a

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in Hispanic Linguistics, is Honorary Professor of Spanish Language at the

University of Alcalá The University of Alcalá () is a public university located in Alcalá de Henares, a city 35 km (22 miles) northeast of Madrid in Spain and also the third-largest city of the region. It was founded in 1293 as a ''Studium Generale'' for t ...

(

), Alexander von Humboldt professor at

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and Director of th
Observatorio Global del Español
at the

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. Since acceptance of this professorship awarded by the

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and endowed by the

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he is directing the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS). He pursues research in sociolinguistics, dialectology, and

applied linguistics Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, psychology, Communication stu ...

. He has been Academic Director of the "

" (2008-2013) and a visiting researcher at the universities of London, New York, ( SUNY – Albany), Québec (Montreal), and Tokyo as well as visiting professor at

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(

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), Universidade de Sao Paulo (

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University of Illinois at Chicago The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the Universi ...

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, and

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (UC Chile; ) is a traditional private university based in Santiago, Chile. It is one of the thirteen Catholic universities existing in Chilean university system and one of the two pontifical unive ...

. He is Full Member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (since 2017) and of the

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(since 2022), and Corresponding Member of the Cuban Academy of the Language (since 2013), the

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(since 2015), the Chilean Academy of the Language (since 2017), and the Mexican Academy of Language (since 2018). Moreno-Fernández was Director of the Cervantes institutes at São Paulo (1998–2001) and Chicago (2001–2005). He was Academic and Research Director of the '' Comillas Foundation'' for the study and teaching of Spanish Language and Culture (2006–2008) and Director of the

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(Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States) (2013-2018). In 1998, he coordinated the first ''Cervantes Institute Yearbook. Spanish in the World''. He has been a columnist in several American journals in Spanish: ''La Opinión'' (Los Angeles), ''

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'' (New York), and ''La Raza'' (Chicago) and co-editor of the journals ''Spanish in Context'' (John Benjamins) and ''Journal of Linguistic Geography'' (

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). He was founder and first general editor of the journal ''Lengua y migración / Language & Migration.'' He belongs to the editorial board of the journals: ''International Journal of the Sociology of Language'', ''Journal of World Languages'', ''Boletín de Filología de la Universidad de Chile'', ''Lingüística Española Actual'', ''Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana'', and ''Oralia''.

Publications

''Así nos comunicamos en sociedad''
''Lingüística y Comunicación'', Ediciones Complutense, Madrid 2024, .
''Demografía de las lenguas, Lengua y Sociedad en el Mundo Hispánico''
53, Iberoamericana Vervuert (in collaboration with Héctor Álvarez Mella), Madrid 2024, . *
El español en Europa
'. Archiletras cientíca. Revista de investigación de lengua y letras (ACRILL), Vol. 10, Prensa y Servicios de la Lengua (with Héctor Álvarez Mella, eds.), Madrid 2023, . *
Monográfico: Patrones sociolingüísticos y geolectales del español. Estudios sobre el corpus PRESEEA
', ''Vol. 94: Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación'' (with Ana M. Cestero Mancera, eds.), Madrid: Ediciones Complutense, 2023, ISSNe: 1576–4737. *
La lengua de los hispanos unidos de América: Crónica de resistencia
', Colección Eleanor Roosevelt, Madrid: Catarata, 2022, . *
Dialectología hispánica/ The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Dialectology
' (with Rocío Caravedo, eds.), 1st. ed., London: Routledge, 2022, 642 pp. . *
El Español en Europa. Sumplemento 1.1. El Español en la Alemania Precovid-19
' (with Óscar Loureda Lamas, Héctor Álvarez Mella and David Scheffler), Madrid: Instituto Cervantes. *
El español en europa. Demolingüística del español en Alemania
' (with Óscar Loureda Lamas, Héctor Álvarez Mella and David Scheffler), Madrid: Instituto Cervantes, 2021, . * " Yo-Yo Boing! Or Literature as a Translingual Practice" in ''Poets, Philosophers: On the Writings of

Giannina Braschi Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, dramatist, and scholar. Her notable works include '' Empire of Dreams'' (1988), '' Yo-Yo Boing!'' (1998), '' United States of Banana'' (2011), and '' Putinoika'' (2024). ...

.''

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, ed. Pittsburgh,

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. (2020) .
''El español lengua migratoria, Vol. Monográfico Archiletras Científica, II''
(2020). .
''Gramática fundamental del español''
(2020) (with Inmaculada Penadés Martínez and Clara Ureña Tormo). London,

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. .
''Variedades de la lengua española''
(2020). London, Routledge. .
''Tras Babel. De la naturaleza social del lenguaje''
(2018). Oviedo: Ediciones Nobel. .
''Diccionario de anglicismos del español estadounidense''
(2018). Cambridge, MA: Instituto Cervantes at Harvard. . * ''A Framework for Cognitive Sociolinguistics'' (2016). London: Routledge. . * ''La maravillosa historia del español'' (2015). Madrid: Espasa. .
''Spanish Revolution. Ensayo sobre los lenguajes indignados''
(2014). Valencia: Unoycero. .
''Las lenguas de España a debate''
(2013) (with. F. Ramallo). Valencia: Unoycero. . *''Sociolingüística cognitiva'' (2012). Madrid /Frankfurt: Iberoamericana / Vervuert. (Iberoamericana) / 978-3-86527-742-8 (Vervuert). *''Las variedades de la lengua española y su enseñanza'' (2010). Madrid: Arco/Libros. . *''La lengua española en su geografía. Manual de dialectología hispánica'' (2009; updated 2nd. ed., 2014). Madrid: Arco/Libros. . *''Atlas de la lengua española en el mundo'' (2008) (with J. Otero). Barcelona: Ariel. . (3rd. ed. updated, 2017. ). *(ed.) ''Sociolinguistics of Spanish in Spain: the bilingual areas'' (2007). ''International Journal of the Sociology of Language''. ISSN (Online): 1613–3668. ISSN (Print) 0165–2516. *''Demografía de la lengua española'' (2007) (with J. Otero). Madrid: Fundación Telefónica - Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales. . *''Principios de Sociolingüística y Sociología del Lenguaje''. (1998; 2nd.ed, 2005; 3rd ed., 2008). Barcelona: Ariel. . *''Historia social de las lenguas de España'' (2005). Barcelona: Ariel. *''La lengua hablada en Alcalá de Henares'' (2004–2007) (with A. Cestero, I. Molina and F. Paredes). Alcalá de Henares: Universidad de Alcalá. *''Diccionario bilingüe de uso Español – Portugués / Portugués- Español'' (2003; 2nd.ed, 2005). Madrid: Arco/Libros. . *''Producción, expresión e interacción oral'' (2002). Madrid: Arco/Libros. . *''Qué español enseñar'' (2000; 2nd.ed, 2007). Madrid: Arco/Libros. . *(dir.) ''Diccionario para la Enseñanza de la Lengua Española'' (1995). Barcelona: Biblograf. . *''La división dialectal del español de América'' (1993). Alcalá de Henares: Universidad de Alcalá. . *(ed.) ''Sociolinguistics and Stylistic Variation'' (1992). ''Lynx''. . *''Metodología sociolingüística'' (1990). Madrid: Gredos. .

Awards and distinctions

* Corresponding Member, Academia Panameña de la Lengua (since 2025) * Voto de Louvor da

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(2000) * "National Association of Hispanic Publications". First Place. Multiple Article Series, Larger Publications (Las Vegas, USA; March 2003) * XV "Juan Martín de Nicolás" Research Award (2006) * National Essay Prize Finalist. Spain (2016) * Honorary Doctor Universidad Ricardo Palma (Peru) (2017) * "Rey de España" Award of Journalism XV Premio Don Quijote (Spain) (2018) *

Medal (2019) * International Award Winner -

(2020) * Gold Insignia -

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(2022)

External links

Francisco Moreno Fernández personal website

Francisco Moreno Fernández at Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies , HCIAS, Heidelberg University

Francisco Moreno Fernández at Dialnet

Francisco Moreno Fernández at Google Academics

Francisco Moreno Fernández at Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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