Marta Carretero

List of John Benjamins publications for which Marta Carretero plays a role.

Title

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

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

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 271] 2017. vi, 320 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
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 LithuanianPragmatic 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
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 textsTense, 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 revisitedEvidentiality 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 studentsThe 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 SpanishGenre- 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
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 moviesEvaluation 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 problemsThe 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 SpanishGenre- and register-related discourse features in contrast, Lefer, Marie-Aude and Svetlana Vogeleer (eds.), pp. 127–161 | 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
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 SpanishLanguages 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
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