JAN BLOMMAERT is Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Prior to this he was Finland Distinguished Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland (2007-2010). His main publications include Language Ideological Debates (edited), Discourse: A Critical Introduction, Grassroots Literacy and The Sociolinguistics of Globalization.
SIRPA LEPPaNEN is Professor of English at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. Her major publications in the field of multilingualism include National Survey on the English Language in Finland: Uses, Meanings and Attitudes , Internet Fictions and Kolmas kotimainen: Lahikuvia englannin kaytosta Suomessa ('The Third Domestic Language: Case Studies on the Use of English in Finland').
PaIVI PAHTA is Professor of English at the University of Tampere, Finland. Her main publications include Writing in Nonstandard English, Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English, The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation, Medical Writing in Early Modern English and Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English.
TIINA RaISaNEN is Junior researcher in the Department of Languages, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. Her research interests include ethnographic, discourse and sociolinguistic studies of language users' identities, individual linguistic repertoires and biographical trajectories. Her longitudinal research project focuses on Finns as users of English in globalized working life.
