J. R. Martin

J R Martin is a professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. He was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1998 (acting as the head of its Linguistics Section from 2010–2012) and was awarded a Centenary Medal for his services to Linguistics and Philology in 2003. In April 2014, Shanghai Jiao Tong University opened its Martin Centre for Appliable Linguistics, appointing Professor Martin as a director.

Priscilla Angela T Cruz is an associate professor at the Department of English, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. Her research focuses on discourse analysis, appliable linguistics, educational linguistics, language variation, and systemic functional linguistics. She has also worked on mother-tongue-based multilingual education.