Edited by Peter J. Grund, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Kentucky, and Edited by Terry Walker, Professor of English Linguistics and head of the English section at the Department of Humanities, Mid Sweden University

Peter J. Grund is Associate Professor of English Language Studies at the University of Kansas. He is the co-author of Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England (2011), and co-editor of Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt (2009). He serves as co-editor of Journal of English Linguistics. His research interests include stance, evidentiality, and speech representation in historical periods. Terry Walker is Professor of English Linguistics at Mid-Sweden University. Her interest in corpus linguistics, philology, and historical socio-pragmatics is reflected in her monograph Thou and You in Early Modern English Dialogues: Trials, Depositions and Drama Comedy (2007), as well as the co-authored books Guide to a Corpus of English Dialogues 1560-1760 (2006) and Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England (2011). Her current projects include work on speech representation in historical texts and on language variation and change in Early Modern English.

Claudia Claridge, Professor of English Linguistics, University of Augsburg

Alexandra D'Arcy, Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Sociolinguistics Research Lab, University of Victoria

Mel Evans, Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, University of Leicester

Peter J. Grund, Associate Professor of English Language Studies, University of Kansas

Ursula Lutzky, Assistant Professor in the Institute for English Business Communication, Vienna University of Economics and Business

Colette Moore, Associate Professor of English, University of Washington

Lieven Vandelanotte, Associate Professor of English Linguistics, University of Namur, and Research Fellow in Linguistics, KU Leuven

Terry Walker, Professor of English Language, Mid-Sweden University