Anna Ruskan, Audronė Šolienė, Jolanta Šinkūnienė

Anna Ruskan is Associate Professor at the Department of English Philology of the Faculty of Philology in Vilnius University, Lithuania. Her research focuses on stance, evidentiality, epistemic modality, evaluation, discourse markers, corpus linguistics, contrastive linguistics, academic discourse and media discourse. She has participated in national and international projects related to stance, (inter)subjectivity, modality, evidentiality and discourse markers. Her publications include articles on epistemic qualifications, stance, discourse markers and contrastive linguistics.

Audronė Šolienė is Associate Professor at the Department of English Philology of the Faculty of Philology in Vilnius University, Lithuania. Her primary research interests lie in the fields of contrastive linguistics, corpus linguistics, epistemic modality, evidentiality, stance and subjectivity, discourse markers as well as translation. The scholar was involved in a number of national and international research projects focussing on the issues of modality, evidentiality, (inter)subjectivity, and discourse markers.

Jolanta Šinkūnienė is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of English Philology of the Faculty of Philology in Vilnius University, Lithuania. Her research interests include EAP, corpus linguistics, contrastive semantics and pragmatics, modality and evidentiality. She is particularly interested in cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary aspects of author stance expression in research writing. She has been working on several research projects focusing on author stance, methodology for the linguistic annotation, issues of modality and evidentiality, and discourse markers.