TY - JOUR AB - Guy Aston is an Associate Professor of English Language at the University of Bologna School for Interpreters and Translators in Forli His main interests concern contrastive and interlanguage pragmatics (he was coordinator of the PIXI project on the pragmatics of service encounters in English and Italian), and the use of corpora in the teaching of conversational skills Address for correspondence 40038 Vergato (Bo), Italy Elizabeth B Bernhardt is Professor of Foreign and Second Language Education at The Ohio State University Her principal research interest is in second language reading Most recently, she has been engaged as a research coordinator in the National Center for Science Teaching and Learning (NCSTL), where she has been studying science learning in bilingual contexts Address for correspondence Department of Educational Studies, The Ohio State University, 227 Arps Hall, 1945 North High Street, Columbus, OH 43210-1177,USA Paul Bruthiaux holds a Ph D in Linguistics from the University of Southern California He currently teaches courses in discourse analysis, English for professional communication, and TESOL at City Polytechnic, Hong Kong His major research interest is in the analysis of written discourse and its application to the language classroom His recent work includes another article on English punctuation TI - Notes on Contributors JF - Applied Linguistics DO - 10.1093/applin/16.1.133 DA - 1995-03-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/notes-on-contributors-dOQOKKCP9Q SP - 133 EP - 134 VL - 16 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -