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\u00a0Fernando Francisco Casta\u00f1os Zuno was born in Mexico City on June 26th, 1951. He has a first degree in physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), an M.Sc. degree in applied linguistics from the University of Edinburgh and a Ph.D. degree in education from the University of London. He has been awarded various distinctions in Mexico and other countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0Casta\u00f1os has worked as an academic since 1976 at three Mexican higher education and research institutions, first the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), Xochimilco, then the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACyT), and afterwards the UNAM. At present he holds a post as a senior researcher at the Social Sciences Institute (IIS) of this university. Here, he conducts research on the nature of discourse and on deliberative democracy. Ha has been a visiting scholar at the UAM, Azcapotzalco, the University of Montreal and the School of Hispanic-American Studies in Seville. During the academic year 2007-2008, he held the chair of Studies on Contemporary Mexico at the University of Montreal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 Fernando Casta\u00f1os has been a teacher in UNAM\u2019s postgraduate programmes in linguistics and social sciences, as well as in Mora Institute\u2019s postgraduate programme in political sociology. He has given 52 degree courses and participated in various introduction and in-service programmes. He has supervised 33 first degree, masters and doctorate dissertations. At present, he is supervising three doctorate dissertations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 Fernando Casta\u00f1os has been an invited speaker at academic institutions in M\u00e9xico, Costa Rica, the United States, Canada, Spain, Great Britain, Italy and China. He has delivered more than 160 papers in a variety of colloquia and congresses. He will be a plenary speaker at the 11th International Congress of the Latin American Association of Discourse Studies, to be held in Belo Horizonte in November 2011. As an author, co-author or editor, he has published 14 books and 55 articles or chapters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 Casta\u00f1os has been the head of several entities and programmes, including UNAM\u2019s Foreign Language Centre (CELE). He has also held more than 60 honorary posts in different institutional coordination bodies, editorial boards, academic associations, civil organizations and evaluation committees. At present, he is a co-director of the journal Discurso: teor\u00eda y an\u00e1lisis. <\/em>He is also a member of the Anglo Mexican Foundation\u2019s board.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Thematic fields<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n From the beginning of his academic life, Fernando Casta\u00f1os has been interested in understanding how the use of language moves and commits human beings. He has investigated the micro dynamics of meaning features that are triggered when Shakespeare deliberately uses one pronoun instead of another. He has also studied the macro dynamics of meaning aggregates that arise when deliberation becomes part of a country\u2019s decision-making processes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 Casta\u00f1os has researched scientific discourse, classroom interaction and social and political culture. He has studied text corpora, performed qualitative analyses of interactions, carried out quantitative analyses of surveys and undertaken theoretical reflections.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 Among his recent writings, two book chapters, one published and one to be published, as well as a research report can be mentioned: La deliberaci\u00f3n: origen de la obligaci\u00f3n moral de cumplir la ley<\/em> (Deliberation: origin of the moral obligation to obey the law); Complejidad pronominal<\/em> (Pronoun complexity); Evaluaci\u00f3n de la competencia comunicativa en ingl\u00e9s de pilotos aviadores<\/em> (Evaluating air pilots\u2019 communicative competence in English).\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 Fernando Casta\u00f1os is now concentrating on the formulation of ontological, epistemological, theoretical and methodological principles that can constitute the axis of a science of discourse.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (March 2011) \u00a0Fernando Francisco Casta\u00f1os Zuno was born in Mexico City on June 26th, 1951. He has a first degree in physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), an M.Sc. degree in applied linguistics from the University of Edinburgh and a Ph.D. degree in education from the University of London. He has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discurso.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discurso.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discurso.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discurso.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discurso.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discurso.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/www.discurso.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discurso.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}