Francisco Moreno Fernández facts for kids
Francisco Moreno-Fernández was born in Mota del Cuervo, Spain, in 1960. He is a Spanish expert who studies how language changes and is used by different groups of people. He is known as a dialectologist and a sociolinguist.
What He Does
Moreno-Fernández has a special degree called a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics, which means he is an expert in the Spanish language. He is an Honorary Professor of Spanish Language at the University of Alcalá in Spain. He is also a professor at Heidelberg University in Germany, thanks to an award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
He leads the Observatorio Global del Español (Global Spanish Observatory) at the Instituto Cervantes. This observatory studies how Spanish is used around the world. He also directs the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS). His work focuses on how language is used in society (sociolinguistics), how different forms of a language are spoken in different places (dialectology), and how language is taught and learned (applied linguistics).
From 2008 to 2013, he was the Academic Director of the Instituto Cervantes, which is a worldwide organization that promotes the Spanish language and culture. He has also visited and taught at many universities around the world, including in London, New York, Tokyo, Sweden, Brazil, and Chile.
Moreno-Fernández is a full member of important language groups like the North American Academy of the Spanish Language and the Academia Europaea. He is also a corresponding member of several other Spanish language academies in places like Cuba, Spain, Chile, and Mexico.
He used to be the director of the Cervantes institutes in São Paulo, Brazil (1998–2001), and Chicago, USA (2001–2005). He also directed the Instituto Cervantes at Harvard University in the United States from 2013 to 2018.
In 1998, he helped create the first Cervantes Institute Yearbook, which shares information about the Spanish language around the world. He has written articles for newspapers in the United States, like La Opinión and El Diario La Prensa. He has also helped edit several language journals, including Spanish in Context and Journal of Linguistic Geography. He started a journal called Lengua y migración / Language & Migration, which looks at language and how people move between countries.
Awards and Special Honors
Moreno-Fernández has received many awards for his work:
- He was honored by the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil (2000).
- He won a "First Place" award for his articles from the National Association of Hispanic Publications in the USA (2003).
- He received the XV "Juan Martín de Nicolás" Research Award (2006).
- He was a finalist for the National Essay Prize in Spain (2016).
- He was given an Honorary Doctor degree from Universidad Ricardo Palma in Peru (2017).
- He won the "Rey de España" Award of Journalism (Don Quijote Prize) in Spain (2018).
- He received the Instituto Cervantes Medal (2019).
- He won an International Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2020).
- He received the Gold Insignia from the Universidad de Alcalá (2022).
See also
In Spanish: Francisco Moreno Fernández para niños
