MICHELLE ALDRIDGE is Senior Lecturer, Centre for Language and Communication, Cardiff University, UK KELLY BENNEWORTH is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of York, UK SUSAN BERK-SELIGSON is Associate Director for Graduate Studies of the Centre for Latin American and Iberian Studies, Vanderbilt University, USA where she is also Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese BRYNA BOGOCH is Senior Lecturer, Departments of Political Studies and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at Bar Ilan University, Israel MICHAEL J. BREEN is Head of Department, Media & Communication Studies and Joint Director, Centre for Culture, Technology and Values, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland SUSAN EHRLICH is Professor of Linguistics, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University, Toronto, Canada JOHN GIBBONS retired recently from Hong Kong Baptist University , and is now an Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia TIM GRANT is Lecturer in the Forensic Section of the School of Psychology, University of Leicester, UK ESTER S. M. LEUNG teaches on the Translation Programme, Department of English, Hong Kong Baptist College, Hong Kong CLARE MACMARTIN is Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph, Canada ANNABELLE MOONEY is Senior Lecturer, English Language and Linguistics program, Roehampton University, UK ANNE O'KEEFFE is lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Department of English Language and Literature, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland DIANE PONTEROTTO is Professor of English Language and Linguistics, University of L'Aquila, Italy PETER TIERSMA is Professor of Law and Joseph Scott Fellow at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, USA LINDA A. WOOD is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Guelph, Canada JESSICA WOODHAMS is Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, University of Leicester, UK