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Janet Ainsworth, Seattle University, USA Vijay Bhatia, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Deborah Cao, Griffith University, Australia Malcolm Coulthard, Aston University, UK Marcel Danesi, University of Toronto, Canada Diana Eades, University of New England, Australia Jan Engberg, University of Aarhus, Denmark Laura Ervo, Örebro University, Sweden Maurizio Gotti, University of Bergamo, Italy Craig Hoffman, Georgetown University, USA Christopher Hutton, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Kyo Kageura, The University of Tokyo, Japan Susan Petrilli, Università di Bari, Italy Gianluca Pontrandolfo, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy Richard Powell, Nihon University, Japan Gary Prideaux, University of Alberta, Canada Fernando Prieto Ramos, University of Geneva, Switzerland Susan Šarčević, University of Rijeka, Croatia Wei Shen, Shandong University, China King Kui Sin, Hang Seng Management School, Hong Kong Jesús Romero Trillo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Joseph-G Turi, International Academy of Linguistic Law, Canada Anne Wagner, Lille University, France Guiguo Wang, Tulane University, USA Catherine Way, University of Granada, Spain Yun Zhao, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong intErnAtionAl JournAl of lEgAl disCoursE