Marta Carretero, Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla

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.

Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla has been a full-time, non-tenure track lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) since 2010. He obtained his PhD in English Literature and Linguistics in 2006 with a thesis on contrastive analysis with a systemic-functional approach applied to natural language generation. His research interests include corpus linguistics, English-Spanish contrastive analysis and studies on tense, modality and evidentiality. He has contributed to various projects on modality and corpus annotation and is currently a researcher on the project entitled Stance Strategies in Immigration and Racism-Related Discourse (RACISMMAFF), reference PID2021-125327NB-I00.