Susan Ehrlich is Professor of Linguistics at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent (2001), and co-editor of "Why Do You Ask?": The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse (with Alice Freed, 2010) and Discursive Constructions of Consent in the Legal Process (with Diana Eades and Janet Ainsworth, 2016).
Miriam Meyerhoff is Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is co-editor of Social Lives in Language: Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities (with Naomi Nagy, 2008), Doing Sociolinguistics (with Erik Schleef and Laurel Mackenzie, 2015), Bequia Talk (with James A. Walker, 2013), The Sociolinguistics Reader (with Erik Schleef, 2010) and is the author of Introducing Sociolinguistics, Second Edition (2011).
Janet Holmes is Emeritus Professor in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and Associate Director of the Wellington Language in the Workplace project. She is the author of Gendered Talk at Work (Blackwell, 2006), An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, fourth edition (Pearson, 2013) and co-editor (with Kirk Hazen) of Research Methods in Sociolinguistics (Wiley Blackwell, 2014).