Verónica Martin participated last Feb. 4 at a conference on "Addictions Prevention" with the Fundación de la Lengua Española in Benavente (Zamora). The singer who created the group "Placeres" with other kids with whom she was seven years, has returned to take the guitar in order to resume her musical career and start new projects. Veronica defends artists who write their own songs, since that's what really has merit and likes to tell people things with her music.
The number of centers accredited by the Cervantes Institute in the Community has increased from 17 to 24, among which the Fundación de la Lengua Española can be found.
On the third hundred anniversary of the birth of Queen Barbara of Braganza (Lisbon, 1711-Aranjuez, 1758), a biography, written by madrilonian historian, Macarena Márquez, will be presented in Valladolid tomorrow, Thursday May the 19th at the bookstore Oletvm, delving into his life, offering a new and different vision from the sovereign, Spanish Queen consort by her marriage to Fernando VI de Borbón. Marquez, who lived in the city of Valladolid for two years, paid a tribute to her historic book: Barbara de Braganza (Eila publishers), a queen, who until the present time has gone down in history with references who not always have been in direct relation to their good work. We closely discover more about these two amazing women in this interview given by the author to the Fundación de la Lengua Española.
The journalist gave last March 24 a speech "TV, investigative journalism and other stories', at the fourth meeting InforUva Cycle 'transmit power', organized by the Department of Journalism at the University of Valladolid.
Among the audience who came to the Experimental Chamber of Zorrilla's Theatre in Valladolid in order to attend the conference on Spanish in the media organized by the Castilian and Leonese Institute of Language we found an unexpected spectator who suddenly appeared: Chenoa. The FLE was invited to the event, had the chance to chat with the singer and see how she handles the gift of speech.
The writer Juan Manuel de Prada has been in charge of leading the conference on Spanish in the media organized by the Castilian and Leonese Institute of Language in the Experimental Zorrilla Theatre Hall in Valladolid, a place, as he said, which revived on him his times of "frustrated theatre vocation." The deterioration of the Castilian and their possible motives spoke before his speech to the Foundation of the Spanish Language in this interview.
Antes de plantearse cómo tratan los periodistas el castellano, Urdaci se pregunta cómo los tratan los medios a ellos. Las prisas o el exceso de trabajo para todos los formatos en las plataformas multimedia son alguno de los problemas que apunta el periodista y escritor en la charla que ha mantenido con la Fundación de la Lengua Española antes de comenzar el coloquio sobre el uso del castellano en los medios organizado por el Instituto Castellano y Leonés de la Lengua.
"Islam in the secular space" is the title which Abdussalam Mansur Escudero gave to the speech which resulted to be his last lecture. He gave his speech in Valladolid, last Friday, October the 1st, to a packed auditorium, within the Immigration methodological Exchange Day organized by the Valladolid Town Hall Immigrant Service Centre in cooperation with the Fundación de la Lengua Española After his presentation, the Foundation had the opportunity to interview and extend these and many other aspects of his vision of Islam. It would be his last interview, a testimony which we fully record here. Mansur passed away two days later on Sunday, October 3, at his home in Cordoba.
Teun A. Van Dijk is a professor of Critical Discourse Analysis at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Previously he was Professor of Discourse Studies at the University of Amsterdam until 2004. He can be considered as one of the founders of Critical Discourse Studies in this area, remaining as one of the most influential scholars. In his presentation at the 25th Congress of Young Linguists presented his latest research reflected in the book "Discourse and power." He examines the relationships between discourse, cognition and society and the determinant role of discourse in the reproduction of power and domination of society. After participating in the Congress he has shared his impressions in this interview with the Foundation of the Spanish Language.
The second day of the 25th Congress of Young Linguists benefited from a presentation by Manuel Garcia Teijeiro, Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Valladolid and director of the Greek Classics Collection by Akal publisher. "The Language of the Gods and Ghosts" was your paper's striking title. We have spoken with him in this interview with the Fundacion de la Lengua Española, about his speech and on the sad news on Miguel Delibes' death, coinciding with the last day of Congress,