Christopher Candlin is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong and also Professor of Linguistics at Macquarie University Sydney where he is the Executive Director of the National Centre for English Language Teaching & Research and Director of the Centre for Language in Social Life. His main interests are in pragmatics and discourse analysis and their application to the description and explanation of professional-client communication, especially in workplace contexts. He is also involved in curriculum development, teacher in-service education and language assessment. He edits the Applied Linguistics and Language Study series and the Language in Social Life series for Longman and serves on the boards of a number of academic journals.

E-mail: enopera@cityu.edu.hk