Corpus-based studies on language varieties

Francisco Alonso Almeida is Lecturer of Pragmatics and History of English at the Faculty of Philology, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. His main research areas are historical pragmatics, specialized discourse, corpus linguistics, and manuscript studies.
Laura Cruz García is Lecturer at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, the University de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Her main research areas are English for specific purposes, audiovisual translation, discourse and translation of advertising.
Víctor González Ruiz is Lecturer in Legal Translation at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, where he obtained his PhD degree in translation in 2002. He is particularly committed to achieving clarity in legal translations, and has made it the focus of his teaching and study.
The Editors are members of the Spain-based TeLL Research Group, Instituto Universitario para el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación en las Comunicaciones, engaged in looking into new technologies and their link to the fields of language and translation.