Angel Crespo

European institutions are concerned at how poorly informed the public is about the European Union. More than 70 per cent of Europe's citizens claim to know very little or practically nothing about the EU, while turnout in elections is on the decline. Since 2003 the Council, European Parliament and Commission have been engaged in a thorough review of their information policies. One of the key aspects of the new information policy will involve raising the EU's profile in the most popular medium, television. This report examines the case for: (a) setting up a new, independent television channel...

This study focuses on the polyfunctionality of discourse markers derived from verbs of motion in Spanish. Based on an extensive corpus of spoken language it provides a detailed analysis of the association between their functional behavior and their concrete and formal expression (position, prosody, combinations). In line with the cognitive approach, the investigation also explores the link between the pragmatic uses of the markers and the conceptualization of their lexical bases (the verb forms). The findings stress the importance of an integrated approach to the description of markers.

Julio Romero de Torres es una de las personalidades artísticas más complejas e intrigantes que protagonizaron la escena cultural española en las primeras décadas del siglo XX. Lo cierto es que siempre interesó a la prensa. Diarios y revistas ilustradas publicaban continuamente noticias sobre su vida y su obra. Artículos, entrevistas y reportajes sobre el pintor cordobés arrojan una luz poco usual o atípica que nos acerca más a su ámbito personal. Las propuestas pictóricas de Julio Romero de Torres mantienen un delicado equilibrio donde conviven la sensualidad, la crítica social,...

Estos dos volúmenes recogen los frutos del I Congreso Internacional sobre el Análisis del Discurso, celebrado en la Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, en noviembre de 2002. En total cinco ponencias plenarias, seis artículos de una mesa redonda y ciento cincuenta y nueve comunicaciones repartidas a lo largo de 2.496 páginas.