Francisco Alonso Almeida, MPhil, PhD, is Senior Lecturer of English Philology at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. His research interests focus on (historical) pragmatics, (historical) discourse analysis, specialised English discourse and corpus linguistics. He has published empirical articles and chapters on corpus linguistics and the evolution of text patterns and functions in a number of international refereed journals, including Neophilologus, Studia neophilologica, Folia linguistica historica, Intercultural Pragmatics, Discourse Studies, and Journal of Historical Pragmatics, among others. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Revista de lenguas para fines específicos.
Ivalla Ortega Barrera, PhD, is Lecturer of English at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Her research interests cover historical linguistics, textual studies, the editing of medieval and renaissance texts, discourse analysis (scientific texts), and teaching methodologies. She belongs to the TeLL Research Group (Emerging Technology Applied to Language and Literature Research Group) at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and participates in the European project “Playing CLIL”.
Elena Quintana Toledo, PhD, is Lecturer at the Department of Modern Philology at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where she teaches English as a Foreign Language at undergraduate level. Her research interests include English scientific discourse, (historical) pragmatics, (historical) discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. Within scientific discourse, she has analysed both Renaissance medical recipes and contemporary academic research papers from a pragmatically oriented perspective by focusing on their interpersonal features. She has contributed to several journals such as Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses or Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, in addition to publishing chapters in various edited volumes.
Margarita E. Sánchez Cuervo is Lecturer of English at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where she has been teaching undergraduate and graduate students since 2006. She received a PhD (with distinction) in English Philology from the University of Granada, and her research interests include the rhetorical argumentation of the literary essay and other discourse types, (literary) stylistics, evidentiality, and modality studies.
