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.

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 nicely. There is a strong need to have more research and published work in both areas, especially in the first one. In this respect, Professional Communication fits very well the needs of the disciplinary gaps. -- Vijay Bhatia, City University of Hong Kong