Elena Dominguez Romero, Maria Pérez Blanco

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. 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) and has participated 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).

María Pérez Blanco is associate professor at the Department of Modern Languages at the University of León, Spain. Her areas of interest include corpus-based contrastive linguistics, evaluative language, modality, evidentiality, and language technology. She has authored a number of publications in international journals such as English for Specific Purposes, Languages in Contrast or Journal of Pragmatics, and scholarly volumes in the field of applied linguistics. She has participated in various funded research projects led by the ACTRES research group at the University of León, as well as in two funded research projects (EVIDISPRAG and RACISMMAFF) carried out at the University Complutense of Madrid.