Notes on Contributors

Carolyn Temple Adger is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Linguistics. Her research focuses on language in education, including classroom discourse and teachers' professional talk. Her applied linguistics work addresses social concerns such as dialects in US schools and biliteracy in developing countries. She is a co-author of Dialects in Schools and Communities (1999, 2007).

Jannis Androutsopoulos is Professor in German and Media Linguistics at the University of Hamburg. His research interests are in sociolinguistics and media discourse studies. He has written extensively on sociolinguistic style, language and youth identities, multilingualism and code-switching, media discourse and diversity, and computer-mediated communication.

Salvatore Attardo holds a PhD from Purdue University and is Professor of Linguistics and Dean of the College of Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts at Texas A&M University-Commerce. He has published two books on the linguistics of humor and was editor-in-chief of HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research and of the Encyclopedia of Humor Studies.

Douglas Biber is Regents' Professor of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University. His previous books include Variation across Speech and Writing (1988), Dimensions of Register Variation (1995), Corpus Linguistics (1998), The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (1999), University Language (2006), Discourse on the Move (2007), Real Grammar (2009), and Register, Genre, and Style (2009).

Laurel J. Brinton is Professor of English Language at the University of British Columbia. Working within a grammaticalization framework, she has published on aspectual systems, pragmatic markers, and comment clauses in the history of English. She is co-editor (with Alexander Bergs) of the two-volume English Historical Linguistics: An International Handbook (2012).

Wallace Chafe is Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Linguistics at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He divides his time and energy between documenting several Native American languages and trying to understand how speaking relates to thinking, with a focus lately on distinguishing semantic structures from underlying thoughts.

Herbert H. Clark is Albert Ray Lang Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. He has published on many issues in linguistics and psycholinguistics, including spatial language, word meaning, types of listeners, definite reference, common ground, interactive language in joint activities, quotations, gestures, and disfluencies. Much of this work is reviewed in Arenas of Language Use (1992) and Using Language (1996).

Susan Conrad is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Portland State University. Her previous books include Corpus Linguistics (1998), The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (1999), The Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English (2002), Real Grammar (2009), and Register, Genre, and Style (2009).

Jenny Cook-Gumperz is Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education. Her research focuses on Interactional Sociolinguistics and the sociology of literacy. Her works include Social Control and Socialization (1973), Children's Worlds and Children's Language (1986), The Social Construction of Literacy (2nd edn. 2006), and numerous papers. She is currently working on a new book of papers, Communicating Diversity, co-authored with her late husband John J. Gumperz.

Colleen Cotter is a Reader in Media Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on news media discourse and the ethnographic contexts of language use. Her book, News Talk: Investigating the Language of Journalism (2010), incorporates insights from a prior career as a news reporter and editor.

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen is Finland Distinguished Professor in the Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies, University of Helsinki. Her research interests include grammar and prosody in interaction. Key publications include Introduction to English Prosody (1986), English Speech Rhythm (1993), Prosody in Conversation (with Margaret Selting, 1996) and Studies in Interactional Linguistics (with Margaret Selting, 2001).

Anna De Fina is Professor of Italian Language and Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her interests and publications focus on discourse and migration, identity, and narrative. Her more recent books include Discourse and Identity (co-edited with Deborah Schiffrin and Michael Bamberg, 2006) and Analyzing Narratives (co-authored with Alexandra Georgakopoulou, 2011).

Susan D. Duncan is a psycholinguist who received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1996 and whose research contributes to a theory of human language that takes into account its multimodality and context-embeddedness. Her work focuses on gesture and prosody in language compared across language/cultural groups, child developmental stages, spoken and signed languages, and healthy adults versus those with neurogenic language impairments.

Jesse Egbert is a visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Brigham Young University. His research on academic writing and quantitative methods in applied linguistics has been published in journals such as Applied Linguistics, Corpora, English for Academic Purposes, and Linguistics and Education.

Frederick Erickson is George F. Kneller Professor of Anthropology of Education, Emeritus, and Professor of Applied Linguistics, Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles. A pioneer in the use of video to study social interaction and the musicality of talk, he has also taught at Harvard, Michigan State University, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Cynthia Gordon is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of Making Meanings, Creating Family: Intertextuality and Framing in Family Interaction (2009). Her interests include Interactional Sociolinguistics, expert-novice communication, family discourse, and health-related interaction.

John J. Gumperz was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley when he passed away in March 2013. His work exploring issues of language contact and linguistic diversity spanned a half-century. His publications include Discourse Strategies (1982), Language and Social Identity (1982), and Rethinking Linguistic Relativity (co-edited with Stephen Levinson, 1996).

Kira Hall is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on issues of language and social identity, particularly as they materialize within hierarchies of gender, sexuality, and social class in northern India. Her publications include Gender Articulated (1995), Queerly Phrased (1997), and numerous articles in journals and edited volumes.

Toshiko Hamaguchi is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo. Her research focuses on the analysis of intergenerational interaction involving older adults and narratives of people with Alzheimer's disease or dementia in private and public settings.

Heidi E. Hamilton is Professor and Chair in the Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, where she has taught courses in linguistic discourse analysis and applications of Interactional Sociolinguistics since 1990. Her research and consulting interests focus on issues of language and Alzheimer's disease, language and aging, and health discourse.

Christian Heath is Professor in the Department of Management, King's College London, and is co-director of the Work, Interaction and Technology Research Centre. His recent publications include The Dynamics of Auction: Social Interaction and the Sale of Fine Art and Antiques (2014). He is co-editor of the book series Learning in Doing (Cambridge University Press).

Susan C. Herring is Professor of Information Science and Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington. Her research applies discourse analysis methods to computer-mediated communication, especially concerning issues of gender, genre, interaction management, and multilingual and multimodal computer-mediated communication. Her current research interests include robot-mediated communication.

Adam Hodges is author of The "War on Terror" Narrative: Discourse and Intertextuality in the Construction and Contestation of Sociopolitical Reality (2011), editor of Discourses of War and Peace (2013), and co-editor of Discourse, War and Terrorism (2007). His work in discourse analysis takes an intertextual approach to the study of public discourse with an emphasis on the domains of politics and mass media.

Janet Holmes holds a Chair in Linguistics and is Director of the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project at Victoria University of Wellington. She teaches and researches in the area of sociolinguistics, specializing in workplace discourse and language and gender. She is currently investigating workplace discourse of relevance to migrants.

Barbara Johnstone is Professor of English at...