Masataka Yamaguchi is Lecturer at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is on the editorial board of Discourse, Context and Media, and has published widely in Language and Communication, Discourse and Society, Journal of Sociolinguistics, and Journal of Multicultural Discourses, among other journals.
Dennis Tay is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is a cognitive linguist and discourse analyst, whose recent publications include Metaphor in Psychotherapy: A Descriptive and Prescriptive Analysis, and papers in Cognitive Linguistic Studies and Journal of Counseling and Development, among others.
Benjamin Blount is the owner of a consulting business, SocioEcological Informatics, based in the US. He has taught anthropology and linguistics at the University of Texas Austin, the University of Georgia, and the University of Texas San Antonio, USA. Among his publications are three edited books on language, culture, and society, and an edited book on ethnoecology, and he was the inaugural editor of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.
