简介: 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)

简介: Kevin Jiang is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the School of Foreign Languages at Beihang University, China. He received his PhD from the University of Hong Kong under the supervision of Professor Ken Hyland. His research and teaching focus on disciplinary discourse, academic writing, and corpus-based analysis. He has published five books and over 100 research articles on the above topics in most major SSCI- and CSSCI-indexed journals in applied linguistics. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, English for Specific Purposes, and Teaching in Higher Education, and is recognised as a Highly Cited Scholar by Elsevier, Stanford, and CNKI rankings.

简介: Martin CORTAZZI is a Visiting Professor of Applied linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Applied Linguistics at City University of Macau, China. His professional career has involved teaching, and training teachers, at all the levels of pre-school, primary, secondary, further and higher education, with specializations in English (EFL, EAP, ESL, EAL) and applied linguistics. He has given courses for teachers in the UK, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, Cyprus, Norway, São Tomé and elsewhere. His recent research has developed qualitative methods of narrative and metaphor analysis towards understanding participant perspectives on key concepts of language, culture, and learning. His publications, many co-authored with Lixian Jin, include 5 books, well over 100 journal articles and academic book chapters, besides serving as chief editor and contributing author to 36 textbooks and teacher’s books for College English in China.

简介: Professor Li Wei is Director and Dean of the UCL Institute of Education and Professor of Applied Linguistics at University College London. He is Fellow of the British Academy, Academia Europaea, Academy of Social Sciences (UK), and the Royal Society of Arts (UK). He is Editor of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism and Applied Linguistics Review. His most recent publications include The Handbook of Translanguaging (Wiley-Blackwell, 2026), with Prem Phyak, Jerry Won Lee and Ofelia Garcia.

简介: Dr Lawrence Jun Zhang is Professor of Education (Applied Linguistics/TESOL) and Associate Dean (AD) International for the Faculty of Arts and Education. His research programme spans cognitive, linguistic, sociocultural and developmental factors in reading/ biliteracy development, critical reading awareness in language education, metacognition, self-regulated learning (SRL) and reading development in L1 and L2 contexts, bilingual/biliteracy acquisition and bilingual/biliteracy education in primary and secondary schools, and learning and teaching English as a second/foreign language at university settings, the effects of self-regulated reading and writing instruction on bilingual/biliteracy development, emotions in learning and teaching, and teacher identity and cognition in language teacher education.

简介: YU Hui, Professor of School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Beijing Normal University. She got her Ph.D. in linguistics from Sun Yat-sen University in 2001. She completed her postdoctoral research in Beijing Normal University and has since been teaching in the English Department. She serves as Vice Chair of China Association of Functional Linguistics, Secretary general of China Association of Stylistics, Standing member of Council of China Association of English-Chinese Discourse Analysis and China Association of Ecolinguistics. She has published extensively in areas including genre analysis (Discourse as genre: Arresting semiotics in research paper abstracts, Henan University Press 2003; Essentials to genre analysis, Beijing Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press 2018, Working with genre - Semiotics in academic settings, Springer forthcoming), systemic functional linguistics (Introducing Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory, description and application, co-edited with Chang Chenguang, Wang Bo and Ma Yuanyi, Routledge 2026; Explorations in Systemic Functional Linguistics, co-edited with Chang Chenguang, Springer 2026；Thompson, G. 2026. Introducing Functional Grammar (Yu Hui, Song Jinge & Wang Le, Trans.). Commercial Press. Original work published 2013), genre typology (research grant by Ministry of Education: A corpus-based study of genre typology), academic and scientific writing and knowledge structure (research grant by Ministry of Education: A comparative study of knowledge structure across different educational discourses). She is currently undertaking a translation project of A History of Chinese Grammar by Wang Li, supported by The National Social Science Fund of China.