About the authors
David Brazil is a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in the
Humanities at the University of Birmingham. The second edition of his The
Communicative Value of Intonation appeared in 1992.
Malcolm Coulthard is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University
of Birmingham. His recent publications include the two edited volumes
‘presented to David Brazil on his retirement’, Talking about Text, 1986, and
Discussing Discourse, 1987, and, in Portuguese, Linguagem e Sexo and
Tradução: Teoria e Prática, both published in 1991.
Gill Francis is a Senior Researcher working on corpus-based grammar
and attached to the Cobuild project at the University of Birmingham.
Among her recent publications are ‘Noun group heads and clause structure’,
Word, Aug. 1991, 27–38, ‘Aspects of nominal group lexical cohesion’,
Interface 4, 1, 1989, 27–53, and, with A.Kramer-Dahl, ‘Grammaticalising
the medical case history’, in Essays in Contextual Stylistics, Routledge,
forthcoming.
Martin Hewings is a Lecturer in English to Overseas Students at the University
of Birmingham. He is the author of Pronunciation Tasks, Cambridge University
Press, forthcoming.
Sue Hunston is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Surrey.
Her ‘Text in world and world in text’ was published in the Nottingham
Linguistic Circular in 1985 and ‘Evaluation and ideology in scientific English’
will appear in Varieties of Written English, Vol. 2, Pinter, 1992.
Mike McCarthy is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Director of
the Centre for English Language Education at the University of Nottingham.
His recent publications include Vocabulary, Oxford University Press, 1990,
Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers, Cambridge University Press,
1991, and, with Ron Carter, Vocabulary and Language Teaching, Longman,
1988.
John Sinclair is Professor of Modern English Language at the University
of Birmingham and Editor-in-Chief of Cobuild Publications. His recent