Attitude and Stance in Discourse

Liliana Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Bucharest, Romania. She has published extensively and edited collective volumes on topics related to pragmatics, discourse analysis, rhetoric, argumentation, and historical linguistics.Mihaela-Viorica Constantinescu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Bucharest, Romania. Her teaching and research interests include pragmatics, stylistics, rhetoric, argumentation, and the didactics of Romanian as a foreign language.Gabriela Stoica is an Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Bucharest, Romania, and Researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy. Her teaching and research interests include historical semantics, discourse analysis, cultural linguistics, and didactics of Romanian as a foreign language.Şerban Hartular graduated from Stanford University, with minors in Linguistics and Computer Science. Currently, he is a PhD student at the University of Bucharest, Romania. His research interests include the role of redundancy in natural languages.