Marta Carretero

List of John Benjamins publications in which Marta Carretero is involved.

Title

Evidentiality Revisited: Cognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives

Edited by Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Gerda Haßler and Marta Carretero

Evidentiality Revisited focuses on semantic-pragmatic based frameworks for the study of evidentials and evidential strategies in European languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish). The book also presents discourse-pragmatic studies, with… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 271] 2017. vi, 320 pp.

Articles (18) | Order by:

Carretero, Marta and Lara Moratón 2026 Chapter 2. Effective stance in English and Spanish newspaper opinion articles on irregular immigration and humanitarian crises: The Independent versus El Mundo Multilingual Corpus Research: Advances and challenges, Ramón, Noelia and María Pérez Blanco (eds.), pp. 45–70 | Chapter

This paper presents a quantitative and contrastive analysis of effective stance — the kind of stance aimed at determining or influencing the course of reality — in opinion articles from two newspapers of comparable ideology, The Independent from the United Kingdom and El Mundo from Spain. The… read more

Romero, Elena Domínguez, Marta Carretero and Mercedes González Vázquez 2026 Chapter 8. Concealed responsibility and implicit meaning: Nonpersonal epistemic stance presupposition triggers in UK Conservative parliamentary and newspaper opinion migration discourse Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics, Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria, Dolores González-Álvarez and Esperanza Rama-Martínez (eds.), pp. 209–240 | Chapter

This chapter investigates the ways in which epistemic stance expressions (e.g., perhaps, probably, I believe, it is known, etc.) function in two registers of persuasive discourse: parliamentary debate and opinion journalism. It focuses on expressions that operate on two levels of implicitness —… read more

Carretero, Marta 2022 Shell nouns as epistemic stance devices in English: A study of four epistemic modal nouns and four evidential nouns English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective: Current issues, Sommerer, Lotte and Evelien Keizer (eds.), pp. 171–204 | Chapter

This paper is concerned with the role of English Noun Phrases headed by shell nouns with epistemic modal and evidential meanings as devices for expressing epistemic stance. In line with previous work (Schmid 2000, Carretero 2016), this research adopts the notion of modal and evidential frames… read more

Ruskan, Anna and Marta Carretero 2021 Chapter 15. A cross-linguistic look at the right periphery: Utterance-final pragmatic markers in English, Spanish and Lithuanian Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries, Van Olmen, Daniël and Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.), pp. 415–448 | Chapter

This paper compares the formal and functional features of two sets of English, Spanish and Lithuanian pragmatic markers, one of linking adverbials (then, entonces, tada) and another of evidential adverbials (obviously, evidentemente, aišku). The study deals with the contribution of the right… read more

Carretero, Marta 2019 Evidentiality in adverbs of manner of perceivability: The case of English manifestly, noticeably, patently and visibly Functions of Language 26:3, pp. 275–307 | Article

This paper presents an analysis of the expression of evidentiality by the English adverbs manifestly, noticeably, patently and visibly (MNP&V). I propose that the adverbs have a meaning of manner and an evidential meaning, and that both meanings often coexist, in which case evidentiality is shown… read more

Carretero, Marta and Yolanda Berdasco-Gancedo 2018 Chapter 6. Expressing sources of information, knowledge and belief in English and Spanish informative financial texts Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Ayoun, Dalila, Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari (eds.), pp. 109–144 | Chapter

This chapter presents a qualitative and quantitative analysis of expressions of sources of information, knowledge and belief and their combination with grammaticalized devices of future time from the perspective of the present and the past (‘will’, ‘would’ and their Spanish equivalents) in a corpus… read more

Marín-Arrese, Juana I., Gerda Haßler and Marta Carretero 2017 Evidentiality revisited Evidentiality Revisited: Cognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives, Marín-Arrese, Juana I., Gerda Haßler and Marta Carretero (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Introduction

Carretero, Marta 2016 Review of Cutting (2015): Pragmatics: A resource book for students The Acquisition and Processing of Spanish and Portuguese Morphosyntax: Theoretical and experimental issues, Klassen, Rachel, Anahí Alba de la Fuente, Joanne Markle LaMontagne and Almudena Basanta y Romero-Valdespino (eds.), pp. 640–645 | Review

Taboada, Maite, Marta Carretero and Jennifer Hinnell 2016 Loving and hating the movies in English, German and Spanish Genre- and Register-related Discourse Features in Contrast, Lefer, Marie-Aude and Svetlana Vogeleer (eds.), pp. 127–160 | Article

We present a quantitative analysis of evaluative language in a genre in which it is particularly prominent, that of movie reviews. The data chosen are non-professional consumer-generated reviews written in English, German and Spanish. The reviews are analysed in terms of the categories of Attitude… read more

Carretero, Marta 2014 Chapter 2. The role of authorial voice in professional and non-professional reviews of films: an English-Spanish contrastive study of engagement Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres, Gil-Salom, Luz and Carmen Soler-Monreal (eds.), pp. 55–86 | Article

Following the Appraisal framework, this paper explores the role of authorial voice in 80 English and Spanish film reviews, half professional and half consumer-generated. The analysis focuses on Engagement, a dialogic category that concerns the relation between what is being stated and other actual… read more

Carretero, Marta and Maite Taboada 2014 Graduation within the scope of Attitude in English and Spanish consumer reviews of books and movies Evaluation in Context, Thompson, Geoff † and Laura Alba-Juez (eds.), pp. 221–240 | Article

This chapter reports research on evaluative language in English and Spanish consumer-generated reviews on books and movies. Within the Appraisal framework, a contrastive study is carried out on the spans of Graduation embedded in spans of Attitude in 64 reviews. A qualitative analysis, covering a… read more

Lavid-López, Julia, Marta Carretero, Jorge Arús-Hita, Lara Moratón and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla 2014 Contrastive corpus annotation in the CONTRANOT project: Issues and problems The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse: Applications and implications, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez-García and Angela Downing (eds.), pp. 57–86 | Article

In this paper we outline a number of issues and problems which arise during the process of contrastive human-coded corpus annotation of certain semantic and discourse categories within the framework of the CONTRANOT project, aimed at the creation and validation of contrastive functional… read more

Taboada, Maite, Marta Carretero and Jennifer Hinnell 2014 Loving and hating the movies in English, German and Spanish Genre- and register-related discourse features in contrast, Lefer, Marie-Aude and Svetlana Vogeleer (eds.), pp. 127–161 | Article

Carretero, Marta 2012 “You’re absolutely right!!”: A corpus-based contrastive analysis of ‘absolutely’ in British English and absolutamente in Peninsular Spanish, with special emphasis on the relationship between degree and certainty Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from false friends, Lauwers, Peter, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen (eds.), pp. 65–93 | Article

The English degree adverb absolutely and its Spanish equivalent absolutamente may function as modifiers of words of different kinds, as Adjuncts and as (parts of) minor clauses. This article sets forth a quantitative analysis, based on naturally-occurring linguistic data, of the distribution of… read more

Carretero, Marta and Asunción Villamil-Touriño 2011 A contrastive study of verbs of remembering and forgetting in English and Spanish Languages in Contrast 11:1, pp. 40–69 | Article

This article presents a contrastive study of the verbs REMEMBER, FORGET and REMIND and their Spanish equivalents RECORDAR, ACORDARSE and OLVIDAR(SE), from a broad systemic-functional perspective. Through a database built with occurrences obtained from authentic corpora, a quantitative analysis was… read more

Carretero, Marta 2010 “You’re absolutely right!!”: A corpus-based contrastive analysis of ‘absolutely’ in British English and absolutamente in Peninsular Spanish, with special emphasis on the relationship between degree and certainty Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from false friends, Lauwers, Peter, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen (eds.), pp. 194–222 | Article

Carretero, Marta 2008 Review of Frawley (2006): The expression of modality & Klinge & Müller (2005): Modality: Studies in form and function & Wärnsby (2006): (De)coding modality: The case of must, may, måste and kan Evaluation in text types, Bednarek, Monika (ed.), pp. 152–170 | Review

Carretero, Marta 2002 Review of Nuyts (2001): Epistemic modality,language and conceptualization: A cognitive-pragmatic perspective Functions of Language 9:1, pp. 111–121 | Review