Stance, Inter/Subjectivity and Identity in Discourse

Elena Domínguez Romero is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Complutense University in Madrid. Her research interests include evidentiality and modality in media discourse. She has participated in the projects EUROEVIDMOD (FFI2011-23181), EVIDISPRAG, and STANCEDISC (PGC2018-095798-B-I00), all of them focusing on evidentiality, modality, stance, and subjectivity. She has coedited two volumes in the field Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages (Peter Lang 2017) and Thinking Modally. English and Contrastive Studies on Modality (Cambridge Scholars 2015), and has co-authored papers in international journals such as Journal of Pragmatics (2021) and Intercultural Pragmatics (2019).

Oana-Adriana Duţă is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Translation Studies at the University of Craiova. She holds a Ph.D. in Philology of the University of Bucharest and a Ph.D. in Finance of the University of Craiova and has published 12 literary and economic translations with prestigious publishing houses in Romania. She has authored two handbooks and numerous articles in international and national academic journals. She has a solid theoretical background in teaching methodology and has performed extensive research on foreign languages teaching in national and international projects. Her thorough acquaintance with linguistic policies is underpinned by her experience as an editorial secretary of the internationally peer-reviewed Annals of the University of Craiova. Philology. Linguistics, as well as by her active involvement in activities of internationalization at the faculty and university level.

Sergio Ferrer-Navas graduated in English Philology at Complutense University of Madrid, where he completed the teaching and research periods imparted within the post-graduate programme in English Studies: Cognition, Communication and Interculturality. At present, he is a PhD candidate in the doctoral programme in English Linguistics at Complutense University of Madrid. He spent a year in a doctoral stay at The University of Texas of the Permian Basin in 2016, where he contributed to several annual editions of a composition handbook for the students enrolled in the Composition course. He joined the Department of English Studies at Complutense University of Madrid as a lecturer in English Linguistics from 2017 to 2021. He has also participated in several international conferences. His main research areas are political discourse analysis, stancetaking and rhetoric.

Laura Filardo-Llamas is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the Department of English Studies of the University of Valladolid, Spain. She was awarded her PhD in English Linguistics in 2007 and has been working at the University of Valladolid since then. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Ulster-Jordanstown, the University of Lancaster, and the Vrije University of Amsterdam. Her research specialises on Critical Discourse Analysis, with a particular interest in political discourse analysis, an area in which she has published widely, both in prestigious journals and in edited collections. She was a co-editor of the volume published by Routledge Space, Time and Evaluation in Ideological Discourse. Her fields of academic interest are cognitive linguistics, gender studies, metaphor, multimodality, nationalist conflicts, political discourse, and politics and social media

Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes is a Professor in Spanish linguistics at the University of the Balearic Islands and has headed multiple projects on the acquisition of various phenomena on Spanish language including, but not limited to, the acquisition of ser/estar, tense and mood, differential object marking, all funded by the British Academy, Art and Humanities Research Council, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and more recently by the European Union research foundation under the Horizon2020. He has authored and co-authored numerous journal articles, book chapters and books, published by various international publishers and in high impact journals. He has organized many professional meetings and has been a participant in many professional conferences.

Xiang Huang is PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (Spain). She received her master’s degree in Translation Studies from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China. She is now working on her PhD project on discursive representation of obesity in the Chinese media. Her research interests include critical metaphor analysis, media discourse studies, discourse and social changes.

Pascale Leclercq is a lecturer at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, where she is currently Head of the Teacher Training department. She teaches English linguistics, second language acquisition and research methodology to graduate and undergraduate students. Her research interests include SLA research methodology and epistemology, but also cross-linguistic influences in the L2 acquisition of discursive competence. She has recently published a variety of papers on the acquisition of nominal reference, TAM reference, and evidentiality. She is also interested in the study of L2 development in a study abroad context.

Juana Isabel Marín-Arrese is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics in the Department of English Studies: Linguistics and Literature at the UCM. She is a Fleming Award and Fulbright/Hays scholar. She holds an MA (University of Lancaster, UK, 1985), and a PhD with outstanding Doctoral Award (UCM, 1992). Her main research interests include the fields of discourse, semantics, and pragmatics, with special interest in cognitive linguistic studies, critical discourse studies, and cross-linguistic studies. Her recent research focuses on stance, epistemicity and the expression of inter/subjectivity in discourse. She has been PI in the research projects STANCEDISC (PGC2018-095798-B-I00), and EUROEVIDMOD (FFI2011-23181), and has participated as a research member in EVIDISPRAG (FFI2015-65474-P). She is co-editor of the collective volumes on evidentiality and modality: Evidential Marking in European Languages. Toward a unitary comparative account (De Gruyter, in press); Evidentiality Revisited: Cognitive Grammar, Functional and Discourse-Pragmatic Perspectives (John Benjamins, 2017), Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages (Peter Lang, 2017), Evidentiality and the Semantics Pragmatics Interface (Belgian Journal of Linguistics 29, Special issue, John Benjamins, 2015), and English Modality: Core, Periphery and Evidentiality (De Gruyter Mouton, 2013). Her recent publications on these topics include papers in peer-reviewed journals (Journal of Pragmatics 2021; Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación 2021; Kalbotyra 2017; Belgian Journal of Linguistics 2015; Critical Discourse Studies 2015; Discourse Studies 2015), and chapters in collective volumes (John Benjamins 2021, 2018, 2017; Routledge 2020, 2015; Peter Lang 2016; Vervuert 2016; De Gruyter Mouton 2013).

Vicent Montalt teaches medical, scientific and technical translation at the Universitat Jaume I, Spain and is director of the Master in Medical Translation, and of the research team Tradmed, both at the same University. He is author of Manual de traduccio cientificotècnica (2005), a book on scientific and technical translation published in Catalan, and Medical Translation Step by Step (2014), an approach to medical translation based on learner and learning-centred teaching tasks.

Natalia Mora-López holds a PhD in English Linguistics from the Complutense University of Madrid, where she also obtained her Master’s in English Linguistics and Master’s in Teacher training, as well as her BA degrees in English and Spanish studies. She has taught English-related subjects in several Spanish universities. Currently, she works at the Complutense University as an adjunct professor in the department of English Studies, and she teaches courses related to English for Specific Purposes. Her research interests include discourse analysis, evaluative language and the expression of opinion, on the one hand, and teaching innovation, on the other hand. Her research has been published by prestigious publishing houses, and she has participated in a number of international conferences.

Celeste Moreno Palmero holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Guided by a multidisciplinary approach, her research interests include Critical Discourse Analysis, Cognitive Linguistics, and Second Language Acquisition. Within the field of CDA, she has published and presented in numerous international conferences in issues related to Gender, Immigration, and the Cold War. With regards to her work in the field of SLA, she has carried out research and participated in numerous projects in areas such as hybrid methodologies, the use of online applications for independent learning, learning language through art, and the employment of real-based experiences in second language learning. After working for 10 years at Harvard University, where she taught Spanish Language in the Department of Romance Language and Literatures, in 2019 Celeste Moreno Palmero moved to Rome where she started her own company, Hyll School, which focuses on teaching languages using an innovative hybrid methodology that unites in-class instruction with online exploration and offers language courses, language coaching, and pedagogy consulting.

Ana Muñoz Miquel is an Associate Professor in the Translation and Communication Department at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI), where she teaches for the Degree in Translation and Interpreting and the master’s degree in Medical and Health Translation. Her doctoral thesis, on the profile and competences of medical translators, won the Special Doctorate Award at the UJI and the Biennial Best Thesis Award granted by the Iberian Association for Translation and Interpreting Studies. She is currently a member of the GENTT research group (UJI) and a collaborator in the CiTrans group (Universitat de València). Her research interests include medical and health translation, translator training, doctor-patient communication and genres addressed to patients. She has published articles on these subjects in journals such as Target, Interpreter and Translator Trainer, Linguistica Antverpiensia, Hermes, JoSTrans, Hermēneus or Panace@, among others, and book chapters for Routledge, Peter Lang and Comares.

Paula Pérez-Sobrino is a lecturer at the Department of Modern Philologies at the University of La Rioja (Spain). Her publication record includes 24 publications (including 2 research monographs in John Benjamins and Cambridge UP, and 9 JCR articles), 20 invited talks and 43 conference talks. She edited a collective volume in John Benjamins in 2017 and is currently editing a special issue on research methods for Metaphor in the Social World. To date, she has been PI in 3 research projects (including a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Birmingham) and has collaborated as a research member in other 4 research projects. She currently serves in 2 editorial boards for JCR indexed journals (Review of Cognitive Linguistics and Plos One). Between 2018 and 2019, she was consulted by the Joint Research Centre to lead a technical report European Commission.

Mercedes Querol-Julián is an Associate Professor in the Department of English teaching at the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (Spain). She leads the research group PRODIGI (Personal and Professional Development through Digital Genres). Her current research focuses mainly on the areas of interpersonal relationships and multimodality in academic spoken discourses, with particular interest in online teaching and English-medium education at university. She has published on these topics in journals such as English for Specific Purposes or System, and book chapters in Routledge or John Benjamins.

Boitshwarelo Rantsudu received her PhD in Language and Communication Research from Cardiff University, UK, and is currently a Lecturer at University of Botswana. Her research interests lie in the areas of Appraisal Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis. Within these areas she is interested in how language construes attitude, and how such attitude gets mitigated in order to assert objectivity in hard news reporting. She has explored this by investigating the appearance of evaluative language and strategic adherence to the principle of objectivity with specific reference to the representation of the 2011 public sector workers’ strike in some Botswana newspapers.

María Paula Roverso is a Lecturer at the Department of Philology, University of Cantabria, Spain. She graduated at Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentina, and holds a master’s degree from the University of Cantabria, Spain, on “Second Language Learning and Teaching”. She is currently enrolled in a doctoral programme at the University of Cantabria. Her research focuses on the field of English for Specific and Academic Purposes and follows a corpus-linguistics and text-analytic approach with a view to improving teaching and learning in this field.

Julia T. Williams Camus is a lecturer at the Department of Philology, University of Cantabria (Spain), where she teaches English phonetics and phonology at undergraduate level and Discourse Analysis, Speaking and Listening Skills and English for Specific Purposes at postgraduate level. She also teaches a number of courses on English for Publication Purposes for lecturers and PhD students. Her research interests centre on (critical) discourse analysis, corpus-based analysis, metaphor studies, English for Specific and Academic Purposes, and translation studies. She has published extensively and attended numerous conferences in these areas. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Lancaster and at the University of Birmingham. She has participated in four competitive research projects (FFI2014-57313-P, FFI2011-25755, FFI2008-00070/FISO, PGC2018-095798-B-I00).

Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla obtained his PhD in English Literature and Linguistics in 2006 from the Complutense University of Madrid. His thesis, titled The generation of tense and aspect in English and Spanish, is a contrastive analysis taking a systemic-functional approach to language. He has been teaching as full-time untenured lecturer in the department of English Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid since 2010. His publications revolve around corpus linguistics, contrastive analysis English-Spanish, and tense, modality and evidentiality. He has participated in various projects on modality and corpus annotation, and is currently a member of the FUNCAP research group. His teaching covers different subjects in the areas of English as a foreign language and linguistics applied to the English language.