Stance, Inter/Subjectivity and Identity in Discourse

Juana Isabel Marín-Arrese is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics in the Department of English Studies at the UCM, Madrid. Her recent research focuses on stance, epistemicity and the expression of inter/subjectivity in discourse.Laura Hidalgo-Downing is Full Professor at Universidad Autónoma, Madrid. Her research interests include discourse analysis at the cross-roads between functional linguistics and cognitive linguistics, stance and evaluation, multimodality and metaphor.Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at the UCM, Madrid. His main research interests revolve around corpus linguistics, contrastive analysis English-Spanish, and tense, modality and evidentiality.

• List of ContributorsIntroductionJuana I. Marín-Arrese, Laura Hidalgo-Downing and Juan Rafael Zamorano-MansillaSection A. Stance, Epistemicity and Effectivity1. Juana I. Marín Arrese: Epistemic and effective stance: Legitimation strategies and the expression of inter/subjectivity in discourse 2. Natalia Mora-López & Sergio Ferrer-Navas: An English-Spanish contrastive analysis of effective stance in newspaper and political discourse.3. Elena Domínguez Romero, Victoria Martín de la Rosa: Epistemic stance and the expression of ideology in newspaper opinion articles and political speeches: an English-Spanish contrastive study.4. Anna Ruskan, Audronė Šolienė: Realizations of epistemicity and effectivity in Lithuanian political discourse.5. Aoife Ahern, José Amenós-Pons & Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes: Expressing Evidentiality in two languages: Conjectural future in Catalan/Spanish Bilinguals.6. Pascale Leclercq: L2 acquisition of evidentiality in advanced French learners of English: the case of inference marking.7. Cecilia Mihaela Popescu & Oana Adriana Duță: From evidential to pragmatic markers: an insight on the subjectivization process of Romanian cică and Spanish dizque.Section B. Stance, Evaluation, Metaphor8. Laura Hidalgo-Downing & Paula Pérez-Sobrino: ‘Pushing Britain off the precipice’: A CDA approach to (negative) evaluative stance in opinion articles on Brexit.9. Laura Filardo-Llamas & Begoña Núñez-Perucha: From "roaring lion" to "chlorinated chicken": evaluative stance and ideological positioning in a corpus of British political discourse.10. Alfonso Sánchez-Moya & Carmen Maíz-Arévalo: ‘Histrionic, appalling, a major turkey’: the expression of evaluative stance in the discourse of online forums.11. Julia T. Williams Camus: Evaluative stance in science popularizations in the English press.12. Celeste Moreno Palmero: Siamo in cura, non in Guerra! WAR Metaphors, Political Discourse, and Evaluation during the Covid-19 Pandemic.13. Xiang Huang: Metaphor, Stance and Obesity in the People’s Daily (2010-2020). Section C. Stance, Engagement, Evaluation and Emotion14. Carolina Figueras: Empathy in online mental health communities.15. Jennifer Moreno, Ana Muñoz-Miquel & Vicent Montalt: Narrative-based medicine: the use of metaphors in Spanish patients’ narratives.16. María Paula Roverso & Julia T. Williams Camus: Authorial stance and identity roles in research article introductions in two medical subdisciplines.17. Jacqueline Aiello: The discursive realization of a progressive Congresswoman: Stancetaking across contexts and media.18. Boitshwarelo Rantsudu: Setting the scene for other voices: Strategic stance-taking and the construal of objectivity in hard news reporting19. Mercedes Querol-Julián: Non-native EMI lecturers’ expression of stance through subject pronouns and modal verbs20. Mario Serrano-Losada: Spoiler alert, this is no spoiler: assumption, mirativity and irony at play