Ecuadorian Language Academy

The Ecuadorian Language Academy is an Ecuadorian cultural institution. It was established in Quito on October 15, 1874 and belongs to the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language. Its purpose is scientific and literary, in favor of the defense of the language, its spirit and its unity. Among its main objectives are linguistic research, the evolution of the language, the appearance and acceptance of neologisms and attention to obsolete terms.

The Ecuadorian corporation tries to maintain institutional communication with academies and similar entities; promotes and propagates the study of the language through private sessions, conferences, congresses and specialized publications. Likewise, it responds to requests about language doubts and advises national, sectional or local authorities, and the media. It executes plans and projects directed to the knowledge, study and diffusion of Spanish in Ecuador, and to the aggrandizement of the letters of the country. In addition, it maintains agreements with some political and cultural institutions to correct the style of the laws, codes and texts that are delivered to it. He gives lectures, language correction courses and updating knowledge on topics related to the language.

History

History goes back in some way, to that of the Royal Spanish Academy, which was founded in 1713, by Don Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco with the purpose of cleaning, fixing and giving splendor to the Spanish language. At the end of 1870, the Spanish Academy granted the respective authorizations to be able to establish institutions corresponding to it in different countries that spoke Spanish, and thus, on March 4, 1875, the Ecuadorian Academy of Language was installed in Quito. that among its main purposes, was to house in it intellectual and literary groups from all regions of the country.

The Ecuadorian Academy of Language (AEL), the second founded in America, was established in Quito on October 15, 1874, although its legal recognition dates from May 4, 1875. The founding members were Pedro Fermín Cevallos, Julio Zaldumbide, Belisario Peña, Francisco Javier Salazar, Pablo Herrera and José Modesto Espinosa, who were previously corresponding members of the Royal Spanish Academy.

Throughout its history, the Academy has published the magazine Memories and the collection «Cultural Horizon», which reissues old works by its members, with a current preliminary study, and essays related to language studies or literary criticism.

In 2013, after the death of Renán Flores Jaramillo, Susana Cordero was appointed president of the institution, the first woman to hold the position.

In April 2016, the Academy in collaboration with the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL) organized a Cervantes Conference, in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the writer's death.

Academics

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  Julio Pazos Barrera

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  Oscar Vela

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  Francisco Proaño Arandi

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  Luis Aguilar Monsalve

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  Rodrigo Borja Cevallos

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  Fausto Aguirre Tirado

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  Alicia Yánez Cossío

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  Hernán Rodríguez Castelo

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  Raúl Vallejo

Number of academics in order of seniority

• Galo René Pérez
• Juan Larrea Holguín
• Jorge Salvador Lara
• Hernán Rodríguez Castelo
• Gustavo Alfredo Jácome
• Gabriel Cevallos García
• Filote Samaniego Salazar
• Esperanza Matheus and Yerovi
• Luis Alberto Luna Tobar
• Jorge Isaac Cazorla
• Manuel Corrales Pascual
• Carlos Joaquín Córdova Malo
• Jaime Dousdebés Carvajal
• Alicia Yánez Cossío
• Renán Flores Jaramillo
• Susana Cordero
• Mario Cobo Barona
• Teresa Crespo
• Fausto Aguirre Tirado
• Claudio Mena Villamar
• Juan Valdano Morejón
• Alfonso Barrera Valverde
• Marco Antonio Rodríguez
• Rodrigo Borja Cevallos
• Luis Aguilar Monsalve
• Francisco Proaño Arandi
• Julio Pazos Barrera
• Jaime Marchán Romero
• Simon Espinosa Lamb
• Jacinto Cordero Espinosa
• Oscar Vela
• Raúl Vallejo