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Antonio Briz is a professor of Spanish Language in the Department of Spanish Philology of the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication of the University of Valencia (Spain), as well as director of the research group Val.Es.Co. (www.valesco.es), dedicated to the study of spoken language and corpus linguistics. He works in Spanish linguistics and Spanish pragmatics, and his main line of research is the study and analysis of colloquial conversation (Colloquial Spanish in conversation. Esbozo de pragmagrammática, Barcelona, Ariel, 1998; Briz and Val.Es.Co.,How to comment on a colloquial text, Barcelona, Ariel Practicum, 2000, and Corpus of colloquial conversations, Annex of the Magazine Oralia.Madrid, Arco/Books, 2002). His latest publications deal with topics related to conversation units, discourse markers, verbal courtesy and legal language (Briz, coord., 2018, Style manual for lawyers, Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch). He is coordinator of an interuniversity project titled Dictionary of Spanish discursive particles (www.dpde.es), the corpus of conversations from Spain and America (AMERESCO) and a study on theattenuation in Spanish and Portuguese (ES.POR.ATENUACIÓN): http://esvaratenuacion.es/

His teaching activity focuses, above all, on syntax, Spanish pragmatics and colloquial Spanish. In postgraduate studies, he teaches courses at several Spanish and foreign universities on the aforementioned topics, as well as linguistic advice and expertise. Participates in training programs for teachers of Spanish as a foreign language (E/LE). In relation to this area of Spanish teaching, he is director of the online diploma of“Training of teachers of Spanish as a foreign language”, title from the University of Valencia and co-director of the “E/LE Forum” at the aforementioned university. To date, he has been a representative of SICELE on behalf of the University of Valencia. He has supervised 32 doctoral theses.

Among other merits, it should be noted that he is a member of the advisory, editorial, management or scientific committee of different magazines and collections (Cuadernos de Filología , University of Valencia; Oralia and Current Spanish Linguistics, Madrid, Arco-Libros; Chimera Romance Corpora and Linguistic Studies, Autonomous University of Madrid. ; Onomázein, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Cuadernos AISPI (Associaziones Ispanisti Italiani); a, EUNSA, University of Navarra; coordinator of the EDICE International Program (Courtesy Studies in Spanish), based in Stockholm.

He has been a member of the National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity in Spain: years 2010 and 2011; evaluator of the Aragón University Quality and Prospective Agency, years 2012 and 2013; member of the National Commission for the evaluation of the Juan de la Cierva and Ramón y Cajal scholarships, 2012; collaborator of the coordination, evaluation and scientific-technical monitoring division of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness for the evaluation and granting of research projects: years 2016 and 2017.

He was a founding partner of the company spin-off Tecnolingüística S.L., created in 2008 with the aim of transferring linguistic research to society: rhetoric and public speaking courses, linguistic expertise, specialized translations, transcriptions, labeling... (https://tecnolinguistica.com/).The Style manual for lawyers mentioned above, as well as other works, Know how to speak(2008),Non-sexist communication guide (2011)< em>, published by the Instituto Cervantes, Editorial Aguilar, are results of this transfer work.

He has recently been named corresponding member of the Cuban Academy of Language.

Professor of the Department of Spanish Philology at the University of Valencia. He teaches in the Degree in Hispanic Studies: Spanish Language and Literature, the Master's Degree in Advanced Hispanic Studies and the Doctorate in Advanced Hispanic Studies. The lines of research where his publications originate are:

Pan-Hispanic dialectology.
Spanish lexicology.
Spanish as a foreign language.

I am a Professor of Spanish Language in the Department of Spanish Philology at the University of Valencia. I earned my PhD in Hispanic Philology in 1996 and was awarded the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize in 1997. My research activities have primarily focused on the study of colloquial language use, and I am a founding member of the Val.Es.Co. research group (Valencia, Colloquial Spanish). I have dedicated a significant portion of my work to the analysis of intonation functions in spoken language. In this area, I have published notable works such as 'La Entonación coloquial. Función Demarcativa y Unidades de Habla' (1997, Universitat de València), 'Comentario Fónico de Textos coloquiales' (2002, Arco-Libros), 'Aspectos de la entonación española: viejos y nuevos enfoques' (2006, Arco Libros), 'El estudio de la prosodia en España en el S. XXI: perspectivas y ámbitos' (ed.) (2011, Universitat de València), 'La enseñanza de la entonación en el aula de E/LE' (2012, Arco Libros) in collaboration with Adrián Cabedo, 'La voz del lenguaje: fonética y fonología del español' (2012, Tirant Humanidades) in collaboration with Mercedes Quilis, or 'Sistema y uso de la entonación en español hablado: aproximación interactivo-funcional' (University Alberto Hurtado, 2019).

I have also published numerous scientific articles related to my research areas in prestigious national and international journals such as Oralia, Verba, Moenia, Journal of Politeness Research, Faits de Langues, Lingüística Española Actual, Español Actual, Boletín de Filología de la Universidad de Chile, Revista de Lingüística Teórica y Aplicada, Revista de Llengua i Dret, Estudios Filológicos, Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics, Anuari de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics, Pragmática sociocultural, Cauce, etc.

I have served as the Principal Investigator (IP) for the Fonocortesía research project (Ministry of Science and Innovation: 2010-2013), and I have participated or currently participate in the following research projects:

• Urban Sociolinguistics in the City of Valencia ('Aids for Infrastructure Equipment') funded by the Conselleria d’Educació i Ciència of the Generalitat Valenciana (from May 1993 to 1994, inclusive). Principal Investigator: Antonio Briz Gómez. University of Valencia.

• Colloquial Spanish Spoken in the City of Valencia, funded by the University of Valencia (from October 1993 to 1995, inclusive). Principal Investigator: Antonio Briz Gómez. University of Valencia.

• Sociolinguistics of Speech in Valencia and its Metropolitan Area, funded by the Conselleria de Cultura, Educació i Ciència of the Generalitat Valenciana (from January 1996 to December 1998, inclusive). Principal Investigator: Antonio Briz Gómez. University of Valencia.

• Dictionary of Discourse Particles in Spanish, funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (2001-2003). Principal Investigator: Antonio Briz Gómez. University of Valencia.

• New Contributions to the Dictionary of Discourse Particles in Spanish, funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture (2005-2007). Principal Investigator: Antonio Briz Gómez. University of Valencia.

• Transcription and digitization of the Val.Es.Co. corpus (Valencia, Colloquial Spanish). Funded by the Generalitat Valenciana (2007-2008). Principal Investigator: Salvador Pons Bordería. University of Valencia.

• Modernization of Legal Language Project, commission for the study of Oral Language in judicial settings, led by Dr. Antonio Briz Gómez (2009-2011).

• Melodic Analysis of Speech and Didactic Models Project. Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (2014-2017). Principal Investigators: Fco. José Cantero Serena and Dolors Font Rotchés. University of Barcelona.

• Pragmatic Attenuation in Spoken Spanish: its diaphasic and diatopic variation (2014-2016). Principal Investigator: Marta Albelda Marco. University of Valencia.

• Discursive Units for a Systematic Description of Discourse Markers in Spanish (2017-2020). Principal Investigator: Salvador Pons Bordería. University of Valencia.

• EHSEEFONOEMOCIÓN Research Project / FFI2017-88310-P/MINECO (2018-2020). Principal Investigator: X. Padilla García, University of Alicante.

• Prometeo Research Project, Generalitat Valenciana: Towards the Diachronic Characterization of the 20th Century (DIA20). CIPROM/2021/038. Principal Investigator: Salvador Pons Bordería, University of Valencia.

My research contributions have led to the creation of the linguistics services company, Tecnolingüística S.L., which emerged as a spin-off under the auspices of the University of Valencia

I have visited various Spanish and foreign universities as a guest professor within the framework of various university faculty mobility programs or by specific invitation. These universities include Ghent University, the University of the Friendship of Peoples (URAP) in Moscow, Stockholm University, Trier University (Germany), Barranquilla University (Colombia), Concepción University (Chile), the University of Alicante, the University of Seville, Complutense University of Madrid, the University of Gandia's Summer University (Valencia), the International Menéndez Pelayo University in Santander, Heidelberg University (Germany), the University of Navarra, Jaume I University in Castellón, the University of Extremadura, the University of La Coruña, the Autonomous University of Madrid, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the University of Salamanca, etc. I have also given lectures within various public and private institutions, universities, and diverse organizations such as the Belgo-Iberoamerican Association in Antwerp, Belgium, the University of Valencia, the URAP (University of the Friendship of Peoples) in Moscow, the University of San José in Costa Rica, the Menéndez Pidal University Institute at the Complutense University of Madrid, Heidelberg University (Germany), the University of Castellón, the Provincial Hogeshool voor Vertalers en Tolken in Ghent, the University of La Coruña, the Duques de Soria Foundation, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the University of Extremadura, the Fernando el Católico Institution of the Zaragoza Provincial Council, etc.

Since joining the University of Valencia in 1990, I have complemented my teaching and research work with various management activities: member of university faculty hiring committees at various times, Director of the Master's in Hispanic Studies at the University of Valencia (2006/2007 academic year), Secretary of the Department of Spanish Philology at the University of Valencia (from October 2007 to November 2010), Coordinator and President of the Degree in Hispanic Studies at the University of Valencia (from November 2010 to November 2013), Director of the Department of Spanish Philology (from November 2013 to November 2016 and from September 2019 to September 2022), and currently, I am the Secretary of the Department of Spanish Philology at the University of Valencia.

I have carried out evaluation tasks for various national and international journals and publishers, including A.I.Gr.E. (Asociación Internacional de Gramática de la Enunciación), Acta Lingüística Academica, Anuari de Filologia de la Universitat de Barcelona, Anuario de Letras. Lingüística y Filología, Cuadernos AISPI de la Associazione Ispanisti Italiani; Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación. Dpto de Filología y Culturas Europeas. Universitat Jaume I; Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada; Estudios de Lingüística de la Universidad de Alicante, Estudios Filológicos de la Universidad de Valdivia, Folia Lingüística, Journal of Politeness Research, Lengua y migración, Lingüística Española Actual, Literatura y Lingüística. Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Loquens, Moenia, Nueva Revista del Pacífico. Universidad de Playa Ancha; Oralia, Philologia Hispaliensis, Programa EDICE, Quaderns de Filologia (Anejos), Revista de Filología de la Universidad de La Laguna, Revista de Lingüística Teórica y Aplicada (Chile), Revista SOPRAG, RILCE, RILI, Revista Española de Lingüística, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cádiz, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Almería, Sintagma, Spanish in context, Speech Communication, Tópicos en Lingüística, UniverSOS, Verba...

In addition, I have participated in the organization of numerous R&D&I activities, including national and international conferences held at my university or other institutions, serving as Secretary or President in many of them.

Ana Belén Llopis Cardona is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish Philology and a member of the research group. Her research focuses on linguistic, sociocultural, and historical pragmatics.

She is the author of a monograph Aproximación funcional a los marcadores discursivos. Análisis y propuesta lexicográfica (2014), published by Peter Lang, as well as several book chapters and articles in specialised journals (e.g. Revista Española de Filología, Rilce, Journal of Pragmatics, Onomázein, Communication & Society, Verba, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Languages). Recently, she has edited a monograph Culturas juveniles, contracultura y procesos de difusión en el español coloquial in the journal Spanish in Context.

She has been part of the research team for competitive regional and national projects. Additionally, she has served as the principal investigator for the project “Difusión del cambio lingüístico en el español coloquial durante los últimos cincuenta años” (GV/2020/157). In 2023, she was awarded Beca Leonardo a Investigadores y Creadores Culturales de la Fundación BBVA.

MERCEDES QUILIS MERÍN is Professor of Spanish Language in the Department of Spanish Philology at the Universitat de València (Spain) where she has been teaching continuously since 1989. She graduated from the Universitat de València in Hispanic Philology in 1987 and obtained her PhD in Philology from the same university in 1997 with the thesis Perspectivas actuales para el estudio de la protohistoria del español. The problem of the initial F-: between orality and writing. She has five five-year teaching periods and three six-year research periods. She is a member of the research group HISLEDIA, Historia e historiografía de la lengua española en su diacronía (GIUV2013-080) of the Universitat de València and of the LINGUALITARIAS research and transfer group.

She has directed four doctoral theses in the Department of Spanish Philology: Estudio de aspectos gramaticales relacionados con la concordancia y su didáctica en la Educación Primaria, by Eduardo España, 2010, co-directed with M. Aleza; El lenguaje de la práctica teatral,  by Guillermo Abad Canós, 2016, co-directed with Antoni Tordera; El paisaje lingüístico chino-español en la ciudad de Valencia y su aplicación a la enseñanza de ELE a sinohablantes,  by Yujing Ma, 2019 and El cambio de la F etimológica en oralidad y escrituralidad desde las perspectivas de la lingüística románica, by Yohei Mishima, 2020, co-directed with Adela García Valle. She is currently supervising four doctoral theses.  
She has taken part as a researcher in several funded research projects on the history and historiography of the Spanish language in the Department of Spanish Philology, under the direction of M. Teresa Echenique and M. José Martínez Alcalde, from 1989 to the present day. She is currently a researcher on the project La lengua y su enseñanza en la prensa española: de la Ley Moyano al fin de la II República (1857-1939), M. José García Folgado as IP (Universitat de València). 

Her research has focused on the history of the Spanish language: she is the author of Orígenes históricos de la lengua española (1999), a review of the linguistic state of the Peninsula in the period not addressed by Menéndez Pidal, from which studies have been derived devoted to orality and writing in the period of origins, especially on the evolution of the Latin initial F in the early stages of Spanish (‘La F- inicial latina en los orígenes de la lengua española I y II,  Anuario de Filología Vasca Julio de Urquijo). She has worked in the field of the linguistic historiography of Spanish together with María José Martínez Alcalde (problems of periodisation of the language, the status of American Spanish in grammatical and historical treatises on Spanish, lexicographical projects in the 18th century, contrastive historiography of the peninsular linguistic varieties). Her main activity has been the historiographical treatment of the historical lexicography of Spanish, both monolingual and multilingual, with studies on Nebrija, Covarrubias, Terreros or Salvá among others, and in particular on the aspects of historical phraseology and orthography in dictionaries, as well as the linguistic ideology in these works. The main part of her research focuses on the general lexicography of the 19th century, both academic and non-academic, and in particular on the dictionaries of Ramón Joaquín Domínguez and Luisa Lacal de Bracho.

She has dealt with current issues on the norm and use of Spanish and is co-author with Antonio Hidalgo of Fonética y Fonología españolas (2002, 2004) and La voz del lenguaje (2012) and co-editor of El estudio de la prosodia en España en el siglo XIX: perspectivas y ámbitos (2011). As co-editor, together with Julia Sanmartín, she has prepared the volumes Historia e historiografía de la lexicografía del español  (2019) and Retos y avances en lexicografía: los diccionarios del español en el eje de la variación lingüística (2019). In relation to the current norms of Spanish, he has collaborated in the volume Normas y usos correctos en el español actual (2013). Together with M. Albelda and M. Josep Cuenca, she has written the University of Valencia's Guías de uso para un lenguaje igualitario (2012, spanish and valencian), and the recent Guías de igualdad en el lenguaje (2024, spanish and valencian). She has been part of the drafting team for the Cervantes Institute's Guide to non-sexist communication (2011) and other materials for the Valencian Administration and teaching with the LINGUALITARIAS group. She has given lectures and courses on non-sexist language in the academic and administrative fields. Among other publications in journals (RFE, BHH, BSEHL, ASJU, Beiträge zur Geschichteder Sprachwissenschaft, Neuphilologische Mitteilungen Gramma-Temas, Quaderns de Filologia, RAHL, Orillas, Revista de Occidente.... ), she has collaborated in various collective volumes:Lengua romance en textos latinos de la Edad Media (2003), Historia de la lexicografía (2007), El primitivo romance hispánico (2008), Fronteras de un diccionario: las palabras en movimiento (2009), La Lingüística como reto epistemológico y como acción social. (2009), Los diccionarios a través de la historia (2010), Lexicografía en el ámbito hispánico (2010), Modelos latinos en la Castilla Medieval (2010), Historia de la pronunciación de la lengua castellana (2013), Estudios de lingüística e ideología (2014), Métodos y resultados actuales en Historiografía de la Lingüística (2014), Fraseología española: diacronía y codificación (2016), La Historiografía Lingüística como paradigma de investigación (2016), Cómo se “hacen” las unidades fraseológicas: continuidad y renovación en la diacronía del espacio castellano (2018), Nebrija en Bolonia (2019), Creencias y actitudes ante la lengua en la España y América de los siglos XVIII y XIX (2020), El español y las lenguas peninsulares en su diacronía (2020), Noventa años de Orígenes del Español (2020), Lazos entre lingüística y ideología desde un enfoque historiográfico (2020), Investigaciones léxicas. Estados temas y rudimentos (2021), Antonio de Lebrixa, grammatico en su medio milenio (2022), The architecture of grammar (2021), Homo botanicus (2023), De Estepa a Salamanca: miradas en torno a la lengua (2023). 

She has carried out teaching and research stays at the Universities of Mainz (Germany, 1992), Ghent (Belgium 1996), Virginia (USA 1998), Paris 8-Saint Denis (France 2005), Strasbourg (France 2012), Bologna (Italy 2014) and Lausanne (Switzerland 2014) and has participated in more than seventy international and national conferences.  
She has been Vice-Dean in the area of Culture and Academic Organisation of the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication for two terms (2006-2009; 2009-2012) and Secretary of the Department of Spanish Philology (2001-2004). Currently (2023-) she is Vice-Director of the Doctoral School of the Unversitat de València. From 2016 to 2020 she was Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Advanced Hispanic Studies at the Universitat de València. She was Director of the journal Quaderns de Filologia of the Universitat de València between 2006 and 2012 and co-director from 2014 to 2021 of the Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Historiografía Lingüística (BSEHL). She is a member of several linguistic societies: SEL, AHLE, AELex (Asociación Española de Lexicografía), of whose board of directors she has been a member since 2024, and has been vice-president and extraordinary member of the SEHL (Sociedad Española de Historiografía Lingüística). 

Julia Sanmartín Sáez is Professor of the Department of Spanish Philology (teaching area of Spanish Language) at the University of Valencia since 2001. She has four six-year research periods and five five-year teaching periods. She has been director of the Master's Degree in Advanced Hispanic Studies (2010-2012), secretary of IULMA (2015-2018) and coordinator of International Programmes managed by the Vice-Rectorate for International Relations (2003-2019).

She received her PhD in Hispanic Philology from the University of Valencia, with an extraordinary doctorate prize, with a thesis on the slang of delinquency (awarded the Fernández Abril prize by the RAE). She has maintained this first line of research until the present day, focusing on the characterisation of group slang based on its detection in primary sources (oral, media and digital) and from different perspectives (thus, the use of slang as a stylistic resource). He has combined this lexicological perspective with the lexicographical one by publishing a Diccionario de argot (Espasa, 1998-2006) and with the metalexicographical one by dealing with the description of slang dictionaries and markup in lexicography.

Since 1993, she has been a member of the VALESCO Research Group, and has developed a second line of work with continuous work on the collection and analysis of three oral corpora. She has participated with the VALESCO Group in the elaboration of a corpus of colloquial conversations (Corpus de conversaciones coloquiales (Arco, 2002), in the development of a system for the recognition of colloquial conversation; in the delimitation of discourse units, Un sistema de unidades para el estudio del lenguaje coloquial (Estudios de Lingüística del Español, 2014); and in the drafting of the Diccionario de Partículas Discursivas del español (online, 2008). He has also collaborated with the PRESEEA project (Gómez Molina coord. 2001) in obtaining the corpus, El español hablado de Valencia, and with GRUPO PERLA (Gallardo Paúls 2005) in the edition of a corpus of aphasic language. His continued dedication to obtaining oral corpora has enabled him to design a proposal for the transcription of spoken language and an evaluation of the different transcription systems.

Since 2000, he has developed a third area of specialisation with the pragmalinguistic analysis of the lexicon of colloquial Spanish (common slang or urban jargon). He has studied the different procedures of lexical creation and, in particular, he has reviewed metaphor, borrowings and suffixation.  It has also initiated a novel analysis by detecting and quantifying the productivity of word formation procedures linked to the colloquial in three corpora (oral, media and digital). It has thus contributed to the knowledge of the colloquial lexicon, to the detection of its primary digital sources (social networks) and to the identification of lexical novelties in this register. Moreover, it has now added a diachronic perspective to the study of the colloquial lexicon, considering its evolution from the 20th to the 21st century.

In 2004, he has initiated a fourth line of research in neology, by setting up and directing the Neology Group of the University of Valencia, which collaborates with OBNEO in the project of the Network of Observatories of Neology of Peninsular Spanish (NEOROC). From this research orientation, he has published several studies on neologisms, focusing on the analysis of neologisms in the media from a contrastive geolectal perspective and on the revision of procedures more closely linked to the informal register, such as shortenings.

A fifth line of research has been the study and characterisation of digital genres, a line that began in 2008 with Chat. La conversación tecnológica (Arco Libro) and continued today with the delimitation of a theoretical proposal to describe the cyber-genres of tourism 2.0 (institutional websites and social networks), as well as the responses to digital comments, considered as a chained genre. This line of research is linked to the consideration that responses to comments respond to a series of attenuation and politeness strategies, including the treatment formulas themselves.

The sixth line of research began in 2010 with the analysis of the tourism lexicon and the publication of a multilingual tourism lexicographical resource: Cometval Group Multilingual Dictionary of Tourism (online, 2014). He has developed the analysis of the tourism lexicon both from a lexicological orientation and from a perspective closer to the terminology and terminological regulation of the sector, always from the consideration that the lexicon must be inserted in specific discursive coordinates (discursive genres) and in its variability in the geolectal framework.

Finally, she has been integrated in the ESPRINT project that investigates pragmatic-rhetorical strategies in the conflictive conversational interaction between intimates and acquaintances; and she has published several articles on this issue, such as the way of reproducing the discourse used by the therapist in couple therapie.

All these lines of research have contributed to the results of the nine research projects in which he has participated or directed, including, among others, and Discursive Particles of Spanish, , Pragmatic attenuation in spoken Spanish: its diaphasic and diatopic variation, The measurement of neologicity and dictionariness of neologisms in Spanish and especially, Lexical and discursive analysis of parallel and comparable corpora (Spanish-English-French) of tourism promotion websites; and the two most recent ones, Pragmatic-rhetorical strategies in conflictive conversational interaction between intimates and acquaintances: intensification, attenuation and interactional management (ESPRINT) and Contributions to a diachronic characterisation of the twentieth century.