Bio: Dr Robbie Love is a Lecturer in English Language at Aston University, UK, where he leads the Aston Corpus Linguistics Research Group. Among other interests, he uses corpus methods to research contemporary spoken English – how it varies and how it is changing – and has published research on a range of topics, including modality, adverbs, swearing, language education, sexuality and public discourse. He sits on the Executive Committee of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL).

Bio: Hans-Jörg Schmid is Professor of English Linguistics at Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich. His research has been devoted to a wide range of fields in linguistics including lexical semantics, grammar, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, word-formation, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and linguistic theory. His many publications include the 2020 monograph The Dynamics of the Linguistic System: Usage, Conventionalization, and Entrenchment, the 2016 work English Morphology and Word-Formation, and (with Friedrich Ungerer) the seminal work An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. He is the editor of the journal Pragmatics and Cognition.