Andrew John Merrison

Andrew is a mac-using erstwhile incipient accountant viola player who, if lucky, occasionally gets to play bridge and golf. He spends most of his life studying CA and the socio-pragmatics of inter-action, too much money on books, way too much time on Facebook, and nowhere near enough with Sally, Ben and Joe. With Aileen Bloomer and Patrick Griffiths, he co-authored Introducing Language in Use: a Coursebook and co-edited Language in Use: a Reader. He has been an executive member of the Linguistic Politeness Research Group since 2000. Invariably quite cheerful, his favourite words are minimum and outwith.