For more than ten years, Jonathan Webster headed up the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at City University of Hong Kong (CityU). He has served as the Editor of the Collected Works of several leading scholars, including M.A.K Halliday, Ruqaiya Hasan, Sydney Lamb, and Braj B. Kachru. He authored the book Understanding Verbal Art: A Functional Linguistic Approach, published by Springer; and co-authored (with M.A.K. Halliday) Text Linguistics: The how and why of meaning, published by University of Toronto Press. In addition, he is the founding Editor of Linguistics and the Human Sciences (University of Toronto Press); and Managing Editor of the journal WORD (International Linguistic Association and Taylor & Francis)