NIKOLAS COUPLAND is Professor and was Director of the Cardiff Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University from its creation until 2002. He was formerly a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Senior Research Fellow at Macquarie University, Sydney.
ADAM JAWORSKI is Reader at the Cardiff Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University. He was formerly Lecturer at the Department of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan and the Department of Applied Linguistics, Birkbeck College. He has also taught at Gainesville, Florida, Washington, D. C., Bern and Auckland.
