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Alessia Cogo is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton, UK. Before that, she worked and studied at King’s College London, UK, and Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano, Italy. She has written on ELF pragmatics and the interface between ELF and multilingualism. She is co-author with Martin Dewey of Analyzing English as a Lingua Franca: A Corpus-driven Investigation (Continuum 2012).

Jennifer Jenkins is Professor of Global Englishes and Director of the Centre for Global Englishes at the University of Southampton, UK. She has published numerous articles and chapters on ELF, as well as two monographs, The Phonology of English as an International Language (Oxford University Press, 2000), and English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity (Oxford University Press, 2007), and a university course book, World Englishes (Routledge 2009, 2nd ed.). She is currently writing a book on ELF and English language policy in higher education (Routledge 2013).