Mercedes González Vázquez, is Lecturer of Galician and Portuguese Language at the University of Vigo. She graduated in Galician-Portuguese and Spanish Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela. Her doctoral research focused on modality and she has continued working on modality, evidential expressions and epistemic stance strategies in Galician and Spanish. As a result of this work, the publication of her books: As fontes de información: Tipoloxía, Semántica e Pragmática da Evidencialidade (2006) and Da indireccionalidade á retranca: análise das características lingüísticas asociadas á imaxe estereotipada do falante galego (2023) are to be highlighted.
She has participated as researcher at the Corpus projects BDS and ARTHUS (University of Santiago de Compostela) and in the international evidentiality projects “EUROEVIDMOD”, “EVIDISPRAG” and “STANCEDISC“ (Complutense University in Madrid). She is currently participating in the project “Stance Strategies in Immigration and Racism-related Discourse: Analysis and Applications in Affective Learning Practices” (RACISMMAFF) (Complutense University in Madrid).
She has been Teacher of Spanish as a foreign language at the Universities of Santiago, Prague, Leeds and Vigo. She also held the position of Academic Coordinator at the Cervantes Institute in Leeds.
