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Ana Estrella Santos
Ana Estrella Santos in 2018
Born	Quito, Ecuador
Occupation(s)	professor, dialectologist, writer
Awards	Aurelio Espinosa Pólit prize
Academic background
Alma mater	National University of Distance Education
Academic work
Institutions	Universidad San Francisco de Quito Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
Notable works	La curiosidad mató al alemán y otros centos

Ana Estrella Santos (born in Quito) is an Ecuadorian dialectologist and writer. She is a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) in Quito. Estrella received the Aurelio Espinosa Pólit prize in 2013.

Biography

Estrella obtained a doctorate in Hispanic Philology and General Linguistics at the National University of Distance Education in Madrid. Since 1998, she has been a researcher and later became the director of the Linguistic Atlas of Ecuador project at the PUCE, a research project in the development phase that aims to map the way Ecuadorians speak solely in the Spanish language. She was a professor at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito before becoming a professor at the Faculty of Communication, Linguistics and Literature of the PUCE, and director of the School of Literature at PUCE.

Estrella received the Aurelio Espinosa Pólit National Literature Prize in 2013, awarded by PUCE, for her book La curiosidad mató al alemán, (Curiosity Killed the German), where she highlighted the role of communication and vindicated the importance of freedom of expression that can be affected by the law in force in the country of Ecuador. She has also taken part in the jury that awards these awards. She published two previous books; this is her first of short stories.

Selected works

Articles on communication and linguistics

• "Análisis del lenguaje políticamente correcto en Ecuador: el caso de ‘centros de rehabilitación’ y de ‘personas privadas de su libertad’"
• "El léxico de Pichincha y Guayas : un estudio comparativo" (2009)
• "La curiosidad mató al alemán y otros cuentos" (2013)
• "El uso del verbo en el habla de Quito"
• "¡Full lindo!: Acerca del uso de full en el habla de Ecuador"
• "Verdadera Vida y Milagros de un Figurón Sebruno...: un pasquín inédito de principios del siglo XIX"

Articles in collaboration with other researchers

• "Is prosodic development correlated with grammatical and lexical development? Evidence from emerging intonation in Catalan and Spanish"
• "Politeness and prosody: Interaction of prosody in the requests with ‘‘dar’’as a benefactive in Ecuadorian Andean Spanish", Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia 2007 Conference (PaPI), Braga (Portugal).
• "Early International Development in Spanish: A Case Study", 13th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, pp. 203-213.

References

1. "Ana Estrella Santos". revistahogar.com. 20 November 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2024 – via web.archive.org.
2. Atlas Lingüístico del Ecuador
3. "Entregan Premio Aurelio Espinosa Pólit, que cumple 40 años" [The Aurelio Espinosa Pólit Prize is awarded, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary.]. larepublica.ec (in Spanish). La República EC. 24 November 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
4. Estrella Santos, Ana (2013). La curiosidad mató al alemán y otros centos . Quito: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. p. 87
5. "Ana Estrella Santos". ecuadoradio.ec. 12 April 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2024 – via web.archive.org.
6. "Un 'cuentario' musical ganó el premio Aurelio Espinosa" [A musical storybook won the Aurelio Espinosa prize]. El Telégrafo (in European Spanish). 15 December 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2024.

• Living people
• Dialectologists
• 21st-century Ecuadorian writers
• Academic staff of the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
• 21st-century Ecuadorian women writers
• Ecuadorian short story writers
• National University of Distance Education alumni