"This is an interesting and useful collection--original, insightful, and informative. The two main themes of the volume, collaborative work between practitioners from language and the professions, and intercultural or cross-cultural analyses, go together n

"This excellent collection of original papers is remarkable in several ways by its timely emphasis on researcher-practitioner collaboration and authorship, its focus on interculturality both interethnically/lingually and within and across institutions, an

Winnie Cheng is a professor in the Department of English and director of the Research Centre for Professional Communication in English at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests include corpus linguistics, conversational analysis, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics, discourse intonation, and intercultural communication in business and professional contexts. Kenneth C. C. Kong is an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University. His main research interests include discourse analysis, intercultural pragmatics, multi-modal analysis, English for specific purposes, functional linguistics, and language education.