Discursive Approaches to Sociopolitical Polarization and Conflict

Laura Filardo-Llamas is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the Department of English Studies of the University of Valladolid, Spain. She was awarded her PhD in English Linguistics in 2007 and has been working at the University of Valladolid since then. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Ulster-Jordanstown, the University of Lancaster, and the Vrije University of Amsterdam. Her research specialises on Critical Discourse Analysis, with a particular interest in political discourse analysis, an area in which she has published widely, both in prestigious journals and in edited collections. She was a co-editor of the volume published by Routledge Space, Time and Evaluation in Ideological Discourse. Her fields of academic interest are cognitive linguistics, gender studies, metaphor, multimodality, nationalist conflicts, political discourse, and politics and social media.Esperanza Morales-López is Full Professor in Linguistics. She has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Barcelona. During 1990 and part of 1991, she was at the University of California at Berkeley as a research associate with a postdoctoral fellowship from the Spanish Government. Since her return, she has taught Linguistics at the University of A Coruña. Her main topics of research are Critical Discourse Analysis, Sign bilingualism and Linguistics of Sign Languages. She has written different articles for books and journals, and two co-edited books in John Benjamins (2008 and 2017).Alan Floyd is Associate Professor of English Language in the University of A Coruña. He holds a PhD in English Language, which involved performing a critical analysis of a corpus of British media texts. His research interests are the English of the Media, about which he has written several books and articles, and English for the Health Sciences. He has translated numerous articles in different scientific fields from Spanish into English.