LindaA.Wood(Ph.D.,YorkUniversity,Canada)isProfessorofPsychologyattheUniversityofGuelph.Herresearchconcernsissuesoflanguageandso-cialinteraction,anddiscourseandsocialstructure.Shehaspublishedarticlesandchaptersonloneliness,identity,formsofaddress,politeness,lacework,aging,abuse,andsexualassault.Hercurrentworkisfocusedondiscoursesofchildsexualabuseinlegal,scholarlyandmediaaccounts,andontherepro-ductionofgenderindiscursivepracticesofaddressandnamingasrepre-sented,forexample,inexpressionssuchasguysandinsurnames.SheisamemberoftheInternationalAssociationofLanguageandSocialPsychology(IALSP),theInternationalCommunicationAssociation,andtheInterna-tionalPragmatics
Association.RollO.Kroger(Ph.D.,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley)isProfessorEmeritusofPsychologyattheUniversityofToronto.Thegeneralfocusofhisresearchhasbeenonthesocialconditionsofself-reportasfound,forexample,inpersonalitytesting,hypnosisexperiments,andeverydayself-disclosure,aswellasondiscursiveissues(politeness,facework).Hiscurrentworkisconcernedwiththediscursiverespecificationofpersonalityandthesocialpsychologyofaddressforms.HeisamemberofIALSPandofCHEIRON.Thetwoauthorshavecollaboratedsincetheearly1980sonstud-iesofdiscourseandonthecriticalexaminationofthemetatheoryandmeth-odologyofsocialpsychology.