The Cuban Academy of the Language has chosen Antonio Briz Gómez, professor of Spanish Language of the FFTiC, as a corresponding member of the same.

The institutional act will take place next January, in the course of an International Seminar to be held in Havana. Antonio Briz is director of the research group Val.Es.Co., dedicated to the study of the spoken language and the linguistics of corpus, which this year celebrates its XXV anniversary. He works in Spanish linguistics and in pragmatics of Spanish, and his main line of research is the study and analysis of colloquial conversation. His latest publications deal with topics related to conversation units, speech markers and verbal courtesy.