Ronald Wardhaugh is Professor Emeritus in the Departmentof Linguistics at the University of Toronto. He is the author of anumber of books, including Proper English (Wiley-Blackwell,1998) and Understanding English Grammar, 2ndEdition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003).
Janet M. Fuller is Professor in the Department ofAnthropology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She hasrecently published two books dealing with multilingualism,discourse and identity: Bilingual Pre-Teens: Competingideologies and multiple identities in the U.S. and Germany(2012) and Spanish Speakers in the USA (2013), and was theeditor of the sociolinguistics section of the Language andLinguistics Compass (Wiley-Blackwell) from 2010-2013.