Pilar García Mouton

Pilar García Mouton (born March 5, 1953) is a Spanish philologist, research professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIS), specialist in dialectology and linguistic geography and, a corresponding academic of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE).

Early life Mouton was born in 1953, the daughter of the philologist Valentín García Yebra. She obtained a doctorate in romance studies at the Complutense University of Madrid, of which she was also professor for a time. She was a student of Manuel Alvar, with whom she worked on the and also did surveys in various countries for the .

Career She has been an author and coordinator of various geographic linguistics projects: for example, the (ALECMan), with Francisco Moreno or the coordination of the publication of the Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula.

She also co-directs, alongside Isabel Molina Martos, the , a small-domain linguistic atlas aimed at studying rural sociolects. She collaborates on the teams of the international projects (ALiR) and (ALE).

Another of her lines of investigation has been women's speech, with the publication of various articles and books.

She was director of the Revista de Filología Española (RFE) between 2005 and 2015, and previously had been secretary since 1987. She was also responsible for the collection by the publisher Gredos, from 1989 to 2005 and is a member of the editorial board of numerous journals. She has also exercised various managerial roles in the Spanish National Research Council and is a member of various evaluation agencies like the ANEP .

Public Outreach García Mouton works on science outreach activities, like , a segment of the Radio Nacional de España program which she has hosted since 2007.

In 2015, she co-directed an exposition in honor of the 100th anniversary of the (RFE). She has said that differences between men's and women's speech are largely social and cultural rather than innate and that an excess of feminine courtesy can devalue women's image. She also questioned the idea that women make more conciliative, communicative managers.

Publications

La ciencia de la palabra: cien años de la Revista de filología española Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2015 (catálogo de la exposición con motivo de la celebración del certamen de la RFE).