Editors

Kazuhiro Teruya [+–]

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Kazuhiro Teruya is the author of several systemic functional books: two volumes of description of Japanese, co-authored books on key terms in SFL and a complete guide to systemic functional linguistics, an introduction to SFL in Japanese (edited and co-authored) and an edited series of Matthiessen’s collected works. Previously he taught at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, PRC and at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He was also involved in the Language-based Intelligent Systems project at the Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, in Japan.

Diana Slade [+–]

Australian National University

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Diana Slade is Professor of Applied Linguistics, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics. She is also Director of the ANU Institute of Communication in Health Care. Her major publications include Communicating in Hospital Emergency Departments (co-authored, Springer), Effective Communication in Clinical Handover: from Research to Practice (co-edited with S. Eggins and F. Geddes), and Analysing Casual Conversation (with S. Eggins, Equinox Publishing).

Kaela Peijia Zhang [+–]

Hang Seng University of Hong Kong

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Kaela Peijia Zhang is a Lecturer at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. Previously she worked at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School. Her main areas of interest and research include systemic functional linguistics, multimodality, health communication, and science communication. She has combined a multimodal corpus for addressing meaning-making strategies in public health communication.

The series is about the nature, the functions and the structure of human language seen from a number of points of view within the framework of contemporary scientific thought. It covers about 35 years of work by one of the world’s leading scholars in the field, Prof. Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen.

The series of volumes in the Collected Works of Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen are organized into a number of distinct topics. However, they all reinforce each other, and together constitute a coherent, body of theoretical and descriptive work.

Each volume consists of a series of chapters written by Matthiessen with few co-authored chapters that are included so as to present Matthiessen’s whole intellectual enterprise. Each volume also contains at least one new article written specifically for each of volume. These reinforce the insights presented in each volume and further updates the cutting edge nature of the collective works.

Christian Matthiessen taught and held visiting positions at various universities and research institutes in Australia, Germany, Japan, China, the U.S. and Hong Kong. He is currently Chair Professor in Language Science at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Matthiessen has broad linguistic expertise as a theoretician, descriptivist, educationist, and multilingual practitioner of enormous scope and importance, coupled with him being a prolific write throughout his career.