Ana María Cestero Mancera

Ana María Cestero Mancera is a Professor at the University of Alcalá, affiliated with the Department of Filology, Communication and Documentation. Her research is centered within the LIVARES research group, focusing on Linguistics of Spatial and Social Variation.

Her research interests lie in the domain of General Linguistics, with a strong emphasis on sociolinguistic variation, discourse structures, and interactional dynamics in spoken Spanish. Key areas include conversation analysis, turn-taking mechanisms, pragmatics, and the interplay between language and social factors.

The LIVARES research group explores how language varies across geographical and social dimensions, contributing to broader understanding in linguistic theory and applied sociolinguistics.

She has supervised academic theses, including doctoral work, though specific advisees are not listed. Her academic training includes a PhD from the University of Alcalá, completed in 1994, with a dissertation titled Análisis de la conversación: alternancia de turnos en la lengua española, supervised by Dr. Francisco Moreno Fernández.