Principal

Jesús Romero Trillo

Jesús Romero Trillo is an associate professor at the Department of English Philology at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He obtained an MSc in Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh (1990) as a Stevenson Scholar, and a PhD at Complutense University (Madrid) in 1994. He specialises in the pragmatics-intonation interface of discourse markers in the English language, and has published several articles on this topic in the Journal of Pragmatics and Journal of Linguistics. He is currently involved in the creation of a spoken corpus of non-native learners of English in Spain where
he is investigating the prosodic patterns of Spanish learners of English and its implications in the pragmatics of cross-cultural communication. He is the Review Editor of the journal Intercultural Pragmatics and a member of the editorial board of Journal of Pragmatics.

A list of selected publications is the
following:

  • Romero, J. (1994). Ahm,Ehm...You Call It Theme? A Thematic Approach To Spoken English. Journal of Pragmatics, 22: 495-509.
  • Romero, J. (1997). Your attention please. Pragmatic mechanisms to obtain the addressee’s attention in English and Spanish conversations. Journal of Pragmatics, 28: 205-221.
  • Romero, J. (2001). A mathematical model for the analysis of variation in discourse. Journal of Linguistics, 37: 527-550.
  • Romero, J. y Llinares, A. (2001). Communicative Constraints in EFL Pre-School Settings: A Corpus-Based Approach. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 6: 27-46.
  • Romero, J. (2002). The pragmatic fossilization of discourse markers in non-native speakers of English. Journal of Pragmatics, 34: 769-784
  • Romero, J. (2006). Discourse Markers. En: Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Elsevier Ltd.