In this volume the team of the research group CIRCULA jointly addresses one of the topics of greatest interest to understand the relations between language and society: the representation of authority in discourses on language. And it does so through the analysis of the columns on language, a journalistic genre in which opinions of the language are accepted or rejected according to the criteria of some type of authority. The panromanic scope of the works ¿ Latin America, Spain, Canada (Quebec), France, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy ¿ and the wide range of dates ¿ XIX and XX centuries, which cover the entirety of its existence ¿ allow a contrastive, diatopic and diachronic approach to the relations between language and power through this particular type of metalinguistic discourses in the press.