LUKAS BLEICHENBACHER is Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Teacher Education Thurgau (PHTG) and University of Zurich, Switzerland JAN BLOMMAERT is Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, Tilburg University, the Netherlands GERRIT BRAND is Book Editor of the daily newspaper Die Burger in Capetown, South Africa CHRISTOPHER BRUMFIT (d. 2006) former Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Southampton, UK BRIGITTA BUSCH Senior Research Fellow, Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria ANNA DUSZAK Head of the Institute of Applied Linguistics, Warsaw University, Poland where she is Professor of Linguistics, as well as Professor in the Warsaw School of Applied Psychology SUSAN GAL Mae and Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor in Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Chicago, USA ROBERT GOULD is Adjunct Research Professor in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, and in the Institute of European and Russian Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada KATRIJN MARYNS teaches at the Universities of Ghent and Lessius (KUL) TOMMASO M. MILANI is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded 'BBC Voices' project, University of Leeds, UK THOMAS RICENTO is Professor and Chair, English as an Additional Language, University of Calgary, Canada REMY ROUILLARD is a Doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada MASSIMILIANO SPOTTI is a postdoctoral fellow, Department of Language and Culture Studies as well as a member of Babylon, Centre for the Studies of the Multicultural Society, Tilburg University, the Netherlands CHRISTIAN VOSS is Professor of South Slavic Linguistic and Cultural Studies at Humboldt-University, Berlin