DAVID ATKINSON is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland IRIS BACHMANN is Lecturer in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK JAINE BESWICK is Programme Leader for Portuguese Studies at the University of Southampton, UK, and Lecturer in Linguistics with specialisations in Spanish, Galician and PortugueseLARS FANT is Professor of Ibero-Romance languages at Stockholm University, Sweden MARÍA-ISABEL GONZÁLEZ-CRUZ is Senior Lecturer in Grammar and Pragmatics at the University of Las Palmas de Gran CanariaANA MANCERA RUEDA is Lecturer in the Spanish Language Department at the University of Sevilla, SpainMARIANA CAROLINA MARCHESE Lectures at the University of Buenos Aires, ArgentinaCLARE MAR-MOLINERO is Professor of Spanish Sociolinguistics and Head of Modern Languages at the University of Southampton, UKROSINA MÁRQUEZ REITER is Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey, UKMARÍA LAURA PARDO is Professor of Media Discourse Analysis at the University of Buenos Aires and Researcher at the Argentinean CONICET, ArgentinaMARÍA ELENA PLACENCIA is Reader in Spanish Linguistics at Birkbeck University of London, UKDOMINIC SMITH Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Birmingham, UK is investigating Hugo Chávez's discourse MIRANDA STEWART is currently working for the Hellenic American University, Athens, GreeceMARÍA-JESÚS VERA-CAZORLA is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of LasPalmas de Gran Canaria
