Commission 1. Linguistics
"Lengua y discurso: el giro perifrástico "haber" en condicional + participio en español moderno" (Language and discourse: The periphrastic expression haber in conditional particle+participle in modern Spanish). Gabrielle Le Tallec-Lloret, University of Rennes 2, France

Commission 2. Linguistics
"De multu a muitu y de porque a poique. Vocalización de líquidas implosivas: un fenómeno con historia" (From multu to muitu and from porque to poique. Vocalization of implosive-liquid consonants: A phenomenon with history). Beatriz Arias Álvarez, Institute for Philological Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico

Commission 3. Linguistics
"Las lenguas vehiculares africanas y el español de Cuba" (The African lingua francas and the Cuban Spanish).Gema Valdés Acosta, Central University of Las Villas Martha Abréu, Villa Clara, Cuba

Commission 4. Computational Linguistics
"Language-independent informative topic segmentation". Gaël Dias and Elsa Alves, Beira Interior University, Portugal

Commission 5. Art, Ethnology and Folklore
"Reflejo estético y social del negro boxeador americano en la literatura: algunas reflexiones " (Aesthetic and social portrayal of the American black boxer in literature: Some considerations). Asunción Xiomara Puente Vinent, Higher Institute of Physical Education Manuel Fajardo, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

Commission 6. Mass Media
"El discurso del periodista de fútbol: catarsis verbal y paradoja social" (The soccer journalist´s discourse: Verbal catharsis and social paradox).Darío Gómez Sánchez, Autonomous University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

Commission 7. Education and Communication
"Los objetivos de la instrucción gramatical: Reflexiones sobre la enseñanza de la lengua materna" (Goals of grammar teaching: Considerations on the teaching of the mother tongue). Carlos Sánchez Avendaño, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

Commission 8. Special Education
"El enfoque comunicativo en la atención a niños con dificultades en el aprendizaje" (The communicative approach in the management of children with learning disabilities). Mercedes Carrera Morales, Pedagogical University Félix Varela ,Villa Clara, Cuba

Commission 9. Foreign Languages
"Presença e importância dos marcadores conversacionais na produçäo oral de aprendizes de espanhol como língua estrangeira ". Eliane Gonçalves, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Säo Paulo, Säo Paulo, Brazil

Commission 10. Foreign Languages
"El inglés en las escuelas públicas en el estado Vargas" (English in public schools in Vargas state). Jorge González, Gladis Romero, William García and Cleydes Guerra, University Simón Bolívar, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Commission 11. Medicine
"Reinventing life and death: discourse in intensive care units" Marina Frescura, York University, Toronto, Canada