David Block is ICREA Research Professor in Sociolinguistics at the Universitat de Lleida (Spain). He has published on a variety of language-related topics, which he examines drawing on scholarship in political economy, sociology, anthropology, geography and education. He is author of Social class in applied linguistics (Routledge, 2014), Political economy and sociolinguistics: Neoliberalism, inequality and social class (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Post-truth, ignorance and corrupt discourses (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and co-author (with John Gray and Marnie Holborow) of Neoliberalism and applied linguistics (Routledge, 2012). He is a member of the Academy of the Social Sciences (UK) and editor of the Routledge book series Language, Society and Political Economy.