Encarnación Hidalgo Tenorio

Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio is a Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Granada, Spain. Her main research area is Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), focusing primarily on the notions of representation and the exercise of power in public discourse. In her publications (over 35 journal articles, 25 book chapters, 2 books, and 7 edited volumes), she has applied and, at times, refined some established theories. This is the case with the so-called “female genderlect”; Halliday’s taxonomy of “processes” and “roles”; and categories such as “evidentiality”, “modality”, and “evaluation”. While exploring these aspects, she has combined qualitative with quantitative research to unravel some details of multimodal communication, and collaborate in teams with a clear interdisciplinary vocation that includes political scientists, computer engineers, psychiatrists, and discourse analysts. In recent years, she has shown interest in analysing various types of texts such as political speeches, online communication or interviews with abused women; and is currently working on the lexicogrammar of polarisation, radical discourse, and misinformation, which has taken shape in the Nutcracker algorithm.