Lauren Sadow is a Postdoctoral fellow at Aarhus University in Denmark on the Velux Fonden project Danish in the Making which explores applications of the NSM approach and Minimal Languages to language teaching. She publishes in semantics, pragmatics, ethnopragmatics, language teaching, intercultural communication, education, lexicography, and health communication.
Kerry Mullan is Convenor of Languages at RMIT University, Australia where she teaches French language and culture and applied linguistics. Her main research interests are cross-cultural communication, intercultural pragmatics, discourse analysis, language teaching, and humour in French and Australian social interactions.
Cliff Goddard is Professor of Linguistics at Griffith University, Australia. He is a leading proponent of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach to semantics and its sister theory, the cultural scripts approach to pragmatics. He has published widely in descriptive and theoretical semantics, language description and typology, pragmatics and ethnopragmatics, and intercultural communication.