Amy Wang and Nicholas Smith

Amy Wang is a senior lecturer Applied Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University. Amy has diverse interests, spanning pragmatics, intercultural communication, corpus linguistics, and educational linguistics. Her research on vagueness in interaction began with her PhD, a cross-cultural examination of vagueness in courtroom discourse.  Amy is currently course leader of a very successful MA TESOL programme at NTU.

Nick Smith is an associate professor in applied linguistics at the University of Leicester, UK. His interests include corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, language change, regional and social variation, and pragmatics. He has co-authored books on recent grammatical change (Change in Contemporary English, CUP, 2009) and corpus methodology (Corpus Linguistics with BNCweb, Peter Lang, 2009). Recently he has been expanding his application of corpus methods to new areas, notably language awareness and language learning and teaching. He is programme director of the MA in Applied Linguistics & TESOL at University of Leicester.