García-Gómez Antonio - Exploring evaluative, emotive and persuasive strategies in discourse

Notes on Contributors

IONUT ALECSANDRU received his Bachelors of Arts in English Studies in 2016, and his Masters in TEFL in 2017, both from the Universidad de Alcal de Henares, Madrid, Spain. Ionut is passionate about the study of the English language, gender studies as well as argumentation and persuasion strategies. He currently works as an ESL teacher in Alcal de Henares.

ISABEL ALONSO BELMONTE is an Associate Professor at the University Autnoma de Madrid (Spain). Her research concerns media discourse analysis, multimodality and the description of the discourse structure across genres. She has many publications in edited books and in different prestigious journals such as Text & Talk, Journal of Pragmatics, Language & Communication and Discourse & Communication.

MARTA BEGOA CARRETERO LAPYERE is Associate Professor of English linguistics at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, where she lectures in semantics, pragmatics and functional linguistics. She authors over 50 publications, mainly in the areas of modality and evidentiality, in Spanish and international journals. Part of her research concentrates on theoretical and conceptual issues, while other works are more descriptive, covering English-Spanish contrastive analyses. Most of her research is based on authentic corpora. She is co-editor of a number of books, such as English Modality: Core, Periphery and Evidentiality (2013), Evidentiality Revisited (2017) and Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages (2017).

MERCEDES DEZ PRADOS is Associate Professor at Alcal University (Spain), where she has taught since 1993 diverse subjects such discourse analysis, Systemic Function Linguistics, and, of late, argumentation and persuasion in English and their translation into Spanish. This latter subjects have been informed by the research project she directs entitled Emotion and Language at Work: The Discursive Emotive/Evaluative Function in Different Texts and Contexts within the Corporate and Institutional Work: Project Persuasion (Reference FFI2013-47792-C2-2P), granted by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Ministerio de Economa y Competitividad). Her latest publications are The evaluative function of cohesive devices in three political texts (De Gruyter Mouton, 2013, co-authored with Ana Beln Cabrejas-Peuelas), Positive self-evaluation versus negative other-evaluation in the political genre of pre-election debates (Discourse & Society, 2014), Enforcing gender in adolescents via directives in teenzines: A contrastive view in English and Spanish (Publicacions de la Universitat de Valncia, 2014), The use of metaphor and evaluation as discourse strategies in pre-electoral debates: Just about winning votes (John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2016), The Internet as a pedagogical tool in the writing process: A research-based approach (Springer, 2018, co-authored with Ana Beln Cabrejas-Peuelas), Abstract nouns as metadiscursive shells in academic discourse (Revista Caplletra, 2018) and Engagement in business persuasive discourse: The elevator pitch (John Benjamins, under review).

BRUNO ECHAURI GALVN is a lecturer in the Modern Philology Department at the University of Alcal. He holds an MA and Ph.D. in Translation Studies. His research interests encompass different aspects of this field such as translation and interpreting in mental health and health care settings, or intersemiotic translation.

ANTONIO GARCA-GMEZ is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Alcal de Henares, Madrid (Spain) where he teaches discourse analysis and functional linguistics. He holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His expertise lies mainly in discourse analysis and discursive psychology. Professor Garca-Gmezs main and most developed research interest is conflict talk. A main strand of his research has focused on the pragma-discursive strategies employed in conflictual episodes in talk show interaction. Other current research interests include gender, identity and language use in new media. He has published numerous articles and authored two books. Professor Garca-Gmez was an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London (Department of Psychology), and presents regularly at conferences across Spain and Europe. His latest publications are Televised entrepreneurial discourse: Conversational structure and compliance gaining strategies (Studies in Media and Communication, 2017) and Dragons Den: Enacting Persuasion in Reality Television (Discourse, Context and Media, forthcoming 2018).

MARA JOS GARCA VIZCANO is Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Translation and Interpreting in Spanish at Montclair State University (MSU). She teaches Specialized Translation and Negotiation Skills in Spanish at MSU. Her current lines of research are Linguistics, Translation, and Advertising. Dr. Garca Vizcano also works in the field of Transcreation: the adaptation and recreation of both visual and textual contents taking into account the sociocultural nuances of the target audience and language of a particular market.

SILVIA MOLINA PLAZA is Senior Lecturer at the Technical University of Madrid where she is currently teaching at the Department of Applied Linguistics to Science and Technology. She has gained recognition for eighteen years of quality research. Her research has focused on the translation from English to Spanish, contrastive analysis (modality and collocations), Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis applied to different genres in numerous book chapters, articles, papers.

ROSA MUOZ LUNA completed her BA degree on English Philology at the University of Mlaga (2006), and her BA degrees on Education and Psychopedagogy at the University of Salamanca (2012). During a temporary stay at the University of Exeter (England), she obtained a Master in TESOL, and from that moment onwards English teaching and discourse analysis became her fields of expertise. She is currently working as Associate Professor at the University of Mlaga. She has published in JCR international journals such as Porta Linguarum, Plos One and Resla.

JOAQUN PRIMO-PACHECO is a PhD candidate at the University of Valencia. He holds a BA in English Philology and an MA in Language and Literature Research from the same university. His several research interests span across different fields, including discourse analysis, film and television studies, corpus linguistics, gender and queer studies, literary stylistics and TEFL.

ENGLISH IN THE WORLD SERIES

This is the title of the series that the University of Valencia Press publishes within the general area of English studies. The series is designed to cover research topics that are at the cutting edge of English language studies, with a unitary theme of how contemporary English is used worldwide in a variety of functional contexts. This notion, reflected in the series title, English in the World, attempts to bring together various sub-disciplines within English studies which have a functional orientation and which emphasise the social and cultural contexts of language use. The series is envisaged as a set of collections of papers and monographs, written by established authors and newcomers to the field, primarily in and about English in order to reach the widest possible audience. However, papers featuring other languages and contributions in Spanish, to reflect the fact that the series is published by a Spanish University, are also contemplated.