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John Flowerdew is an applied linguist focusing on discourse studies, with particular interests in academic and political discourse and corpus-based approaches. He studied French and Spanish at undergraduate level at the Universities of Toulouse (L ès L) and Liverpool (BA) and gained his PhD in Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton. He also took an Med in Tesol at Cardiff and an MPhil in Hispanic Studies at Liverpool.

Careers
He began his career as a language teacher in Liverpool and Salford, working in a comprehensive school and a sixth form college respectively. He then took up a post teaching English with the British Council in Venezuela, before moving to Libya, Kuwait and Oman. In 1990, he moved to the newly created City Polytechnic (now City University) of Hong Kong, where he remained until 2016, although from 2007-2010 he was Professor of Applied Linguistics at the School of Education, University of Leeds. He has also been a visiting professor at the universities of Cambridge, Vienna and Sydney. He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Lancaster ESRC Centre for Corpus Applications to Social Science.

He has authored or edited more than a dozen books and special editions of journals and published over 100 book chapters and internationally refereed journal articles. In political discourse analysis he has published two books and a series of articles over a 25 year period focusing on the discourse surrounding Hong Kong’s transition from British to Chinese sovereignty under the slogan of ‘one country, two systems’. In academic discourse, he is well known for his edited collections, Academic Listening: Research Perspectives and Academic Discourse and for his corpus-based monograph on lexical cohesion, Signalling Nouns in English Discourse (with Richard W. Forest). He is also a leading figure in the English for Specific/Academic Purposes movement, specializing in academic listening, academic writing and genre analysis. He has been a leading figure in the developing field of English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP). He was an early pioneer in corpus-based approaches and continues to use corpus-based techniques in much of his work.

He continues to be active in research and publication, serves on the editorial boards of a range of international journals, and is regularly invited to give plenary talks at international conferences. He has served as a member of the Humanities panel for the Hong Kong Research Assessment Exercise each of the three times it has been conducted. He is now based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK.

Books

 * 1) Flowerdew, J. & Richardson, J. (Eds.) (2017). The Routledge handbook of Critical Discourse Studies. London: Routledge.
 * 2) Flowerdew, J. & Costley, T. (Eds.) (2017). Discipline-specific writing: Theory into practice. London: Routledge.
 * 3) Flowerdew, J. & Forest, R. W. (2015). Signalling nouns in English: A corpus-based discourse approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 * 4) Flowerdew, J. (Ed.). (2014). Discourse in context. London: Bloomsbury.
 * 5) Flowerdew, J. (2013). Discourse in English Language Education. London: Routledge.
 * 6) Flowerdew, J. (2012). Critical discourse analysis in historiography: The case of Hong Kong’s evolving political identity. Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan.
 * 7) Flowerdew, J., Bhatia, V.K. & Jones, R. (Eds.). (2008). Advances in discourse studies. London: Routledge.
 * 8) Flowerdew, J. & Miller, L. (2005). Second language listening: Theory and practice. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
 * 9) Flowerdew, J. (Ed.). (2002). Academic discourse. London: Longman.
 * 10) Flowerdew, J. & Peacock, M. (Eds.). (2001). Research perspectives on English for Academic Pu rposes. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
 * 11) Flowerdew, J. (1998). The final years of British Hong Kong: The discourse of colonial withdrawal. London and New York: Macmillan and St Martin’s Press.
 * 12) Flowerdew, J. (Ed.). (1995). Academic listening: Research perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.