Marta Carretero, Elena Dominguez Romero

Marta Carretero is professor of English language and linguistics at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). Her research concentrates on modality, evidentiality and evaluation. She has published in Journal of Pragmatics, Functions of Language, Languages in Contrast, Word and Applied Corpus Linguistics among other journals. She is co-editor of five books, including English Modality: Core, Periphery and Evidentiality (2013) and Evidentiality Revisited: Cognitive Grammar, Functional and Discourse-Pragmatic Perspectives (2017). She has continuously participated in research projects funded by Spanish ministries, and is currently co-director of the project titled Stance Strategies in Immigration and Racism-Related Discourse (RACISMMAFF), reference PID2021-125327NB-I00

Elena Domínguez Romero is associate professor of English language and linguistics at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). Her recent research interests comprise evidentiality and positioning in media discourse as well as applied linguistics and innovative teaching research. With Marta Carretero, she is currently co-leading a research project on stance strategies in immigration and racism-related discourse (RACISMMAFF, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation/FEDER with reference PID2021-125327NB-I00) after participating in three other funded research projects on stance, and evidentiality and modality in European languages EUROEVIDMOD (FFI2011-23181), EVIDISPRAG (FFI2015-65474-P) and STANCEDISC (PGC2018-095798-B-I00).