Marta Carretero – författare

This Open Access book addresses the critical gap in current literacy education by integrating multimodal literacies with social justice, providing educators and policymakers with innovative strategies and practical insights. It brings together leading scholars from around the globe to offer new perspectives and diverse case studies that redefine language education as a catalyst for positive social change in an interconnected world. The volume emphasizes the transformative potential of education to address systemic inequalities and empower marginalized communities through critical literacy practices. It showcases cutting-edge research methodologies and pedagogical strategies that challenge traditional approaches to literacy education. Educators will find actionable insights and resources to integrate multimodal literacies into their teaching practices, fostering critical thinking and empathy among students. This book is aimed at educators and practitioners interested in literacy studies, language education, and social justice.

Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues presents ground-breaking research on the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality. The book includes papers on key theoretical issues (the nature of evidential inference and the challengeability criterion for evidentiality), and descriptive studies covering various European languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Catalan and Latvian), based on general corpora or specific discourse types. The prominent corpus-based contrastive methodology uncovers a wide range of idiosyncratic discourse-pragmatic features of diverse languages, discourses and genres. The contributions are representative of the work on evidentiality and epistemic modality in a substantial number of countries.

The book presents new issues and areas of work in modality and evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other European languages (French, Galician, Lithuanian, Spanish). Given the complexity of the relations among modal and evidential expressions, their constant diachronic evolution, and the variation found in different English-speaking areas, and in different genres and discourse domains, the volume addresses the following issues: the conceptual nature of modality, the relationship between the domains of modality and evidentiality, the evolution and current status of the modal auxiliaries and other modal expressions, the relationship with neighbouring grammatical categories (tense, aspect, mood), and the variation in different discourse domains and genres, in modelling stance and discourse identities.