Stance, Inter/Subjectivity and Identity in Discourse
Beschreibung:
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.
The volume addresses a variety of issues on Stance and Inter/Subjectivity, and the expression of Identity in discourse. It focuses on the multifaceted nature of stance, and the use of resources of epistemicity, effectivity, and evaluation and metaphor, as well as other dimensions within the domain of stance, such as mirativity, emotion and attribution. In this way it provides a more in-depth and a wider perspective into the nature of stance. The contributions feature the use of stance resources in several languages, and in various discourse domains and genres, such as oral discourse, political and newspaper discourse, and science popularization and medical research articles, as well as online fora on social issues, mental health and peer support platforms.
The volume on Stance and Inter/Subjectivity, and Identity in Discourse focuses on the multifaceted nature of stance, and the use of a variety of resources of epistemicity, effectivity, and evaluation and metaphor. The contributions feature studies on the theory and use of these stance resources in various languages and discourse domains and genres.
List of Contributors
Introduction
Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Laura Hidalgo-Downing and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla
Section A. Stance, Epistemicity and Effectivity
1. 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, Audron Solien : 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 Du a: From evidential to pragmatic markers: an insight on the subjectivization process of Romanian cica and Spanish dizque.
Section B. Stance, Evaluation, Metaphor
8. 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 Emotion
14. 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 reporting
19. Mercedes Querol-Julián: Non-native EMI lecturers' expression of stance through subject pronouns and modal verbs
20. Mario Serrano-Losada: Spoiler alert, this is no spoiler: assumption, mirativity and irony at play