The Editors : Hugo Bowles is associate professor of English at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", where he runs the English language programmes and teaches English linguistics and discourse analysis at undergraduate and postgraduate level. His research and publications are mostly in the areas of specialised discourse, particularly legal and medical communication, language pedagogy and LSP, and he is currently researching genre and conversation analysis and their applications to LSP teaching.
Paul Seedhouse is Professor in Educational and Applied Linguistics in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, UK. His monograph The Interactional Architecture of the Language Classroom : A CA Perspective was published in 2004. He also co-edited the collections Applying Conversation Analysis (2005) and Language Learning and Teaching as Social Interaction (2007).