Jonathan Culpeper is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK.Paul Kerswill is Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of York, UK.Ruth Wodak is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University, UK, and affiliated to the University of Vienna, Austria.Professor Tony McEnery is a corpus linguist working at the University of Lancaster, UKFRANCIS KATAMBA is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Lancaster, UK.