JULIETA OJEDA ALBA is Associate Professor of American Literature, University of La Rioja, Spain PAUL BAKER is Senior Lecturer, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK JUDITH BAXTER is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Aston University, UK HAROLD CASTAÑEDA-PEÑA teaches 'Gender, language and identity' in the School of Language and Communication at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia ROSA JIMÉNEZ CATALÁN is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of La Rioja, Spain NIGEL EDLEY is Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Nottingham Trent University, UK ANNA KRISTINA HULTGREN, Faculty of English, University of Oxford, UK LAUREL KAMADA is a professor at Aomori Akenohoshi College in Japan CELIA KITZINGER is Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Conversation Analysis and Director of the Feminist Conversation Analysis Unit at the University of York, UK VERONIKA KOLLER is Lecturer in English Language at Lancaster University, UK KONSTANTIA KOSETZI, Lancaster University, UK WILLIAM LEAP is Professor, Department of Anthropology at the American University, Washington DC, USA JANET MAYBIN is a Senior Lecturer in Language and Communication at the Open University, UK LOUISE MULLANY MULLANY is Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK PIA PICHLER is a Lecturer in Linguistics at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK HELEN SAUNTSON is a Lecturer in English Language at Birmingham University,UK ELIZABETH STOKOE is Reader in Social Interaction and Social Psychology Programme Director at Loughborough University, UK JOAN SWANN works in the Centre for Language and Communications at the Open University, UK MARGARET WETHERELL is Professor of Social Psychology, The Open University, UK RUTH WODAK is Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies, Lancaster University, UK, and was previously Professor of Applied Linguistics in the University of Vienna