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 Alcalá 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 Alcalá de Henares.

      ISABEL ALONSO BELMONTE is an Associate Professor at the University Autónoma 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 BEGOÑA 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).