Departamentos

Marta Carretero

Marta Carretero is Professor at the Complutense University, Madrid, where she lectures in semantics, pragmatics and functional linguistics. Her research concentrates on modality, evidentiality and evaluation, including approaches to theoretical issues and descriptive work on the expression of these categories in discourse types such as film reviews, financial discourse, opinion articles and newspaper discourse on COVID-19. She also authors studies on concrete modal and evidential words and expressions in English and Spanish. Her work is published in high-quality journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Functions of Language, Languages in Contrast, Word and Applied Corpus Linguistics, among others. 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), Ref. PID2021-125327NB-I00.