Francisco Marcos-Marin
Visiting professor analyzes how we choose our words
(Feb. 17, 2003)--Francisco Marcos-Marin, UTSA visiting professor of modern languages and literatures, will speak on "Linguistically Structured Symbolism" at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 20 in Business Building Room 3.01.12 on the UTSA 1604 Campus. The lecture, followed by a reception, is free and open to the public.
The event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures as part of the Linguistics Colloquium Series, organized by a cross-disciplinary group of linguists and language specialists at UTSA.
Marcos-Marin argues in his lecture that the meaning of words is not totally arbitrary and that linguistic choices are made intentionally and rejected when they are not symbolically meaningful.
Marcos-Marin is a corresponding member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Espanola and of the Academia Argentina de Letras. He has been a professor of general linguistics at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid since 1981 and is an honorific professor at the University of Rome "La Sapienza."
His contributions to language studies span the world. He has taught and conducted research in Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Gabon, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Norway, the Netherlands, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Marcos-Marin has held numerous academic administrative posts including UNESCO consultant in China, director of Area of Language Industries in the Spanish National Agency for the Quincentennial of the Discovery of America, scientific director of the Digital Archive of Spanish Manuscripts and Texts on CD-ROM, director of the Cooperation Project of Argentina and Spain for cataloguing of the collection in the National Library of the Republic of Argentina, and academic director of the Cervantes Institute. He has served as chair of the linguistics departments and as president of linguistics organizations at Autonoma University of Madrid.
He has written more than 25 books, translated books from English to Spanish and published more than 200 papers and published poetry and short stories. Marcos-Marin's work focuses on applied linguistics pertaining to computers and textual analysis, descriptive and typological linguistics, cultural history of medieval Spain, comparative medieval Romance and Arabic literature and Hispanic linguistics.
Marcos-Marin collaborates regularly with Spanish and Latin American newspapers and electronic press services. He coordinated programs broadcasted by several radio stations, and collaborated on a range of radio and television programs for the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Discovery Channel, Antena3 TV, CNN+ and Radio Television Espanola.
For more information, contact Rosalind Horowitz at (210) 458-2672 or Marita Nummikoski at (210 458-4377.
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