Speaker   David Graddol is a British linguist who has worked in applied linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and history of linguistics. He is perhaps best known for his 1997 book The future of English?, published by the British Council Boyd H. Davis Boyd Davis develops digital corpora which she draws on for sociohistorical discourse analysis, particularly of question-answer dialogue in constrained circumstances and medical contexts, and for materials development in multiple media for second language health care providers and patients.  Her current research, on improving communication in Alzheimer’s discourse, is supported by National Alzheimer’s Association; she is Co-Principal Investigator for Carolinas Collection, the digital portal to conversation and interviews by medical providers and community consultants with older persons having chronic conditions, supported by National Libraries of Medicine/NIH Brian Brown B.J. Brown is the author of nine books and around 40 journal articles concerned with gender, health care, philosophy, education and the processes by which people make meaning of their social world. He has a longstanding interest in how people communicate and formulate their experience through storytelling, narrative and constructions of their own or other’s histories. His work has hitherto focused largely on health care and therapeutic activity, with publications such as ‘Evidence Based Health Communication’ (2006) and ‘Storytelling in Therapy’ (2004). His concern with the process of inquiry in the human sciences has led to the award winning ‘Evidence Based Research’ (2003) and to ‘Social Theory and Applied Research’ (2005). John Corbett John Corbett is Professor of Applied Language Studies at the University of Glasgow. He has published widely in the fields of intercultural language education, translation studies and the use of corpora in teaching language. He is the co-author, with Wendy Anderson, of the forthcoming textbook Exploring English with Online Corpora (to be published by Palgrave Macmillan). He directs two corpus projects at Glasgow University: the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech and the Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing, 1700-1945 (www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk).