With the analysis of Spanish phenomena as common denominator, the papers in this volume explore different frameworks -speech-act theory; Sperber and Wilson's relevance theory; Verschueren's pragmatic distinctions- and a wide range of topics: expressive and commissive speech acts; the notion of indirectness; discourse operators and connectives; uses of echoic questions; pragmatic uses of non-standard conditionals; and the contrast between pronominal and empty subject in a pro-drop language.