John Flowerdew is Emeritus Professor at City University of Hong Kong and a visiting professor at Lancaster University. He has authored and co-authored several books including: Advances in Discourse Studies (with V. K. Bhatia and R. Jones, 2008), Critical Discourse Analysis in Historiography (2012), Discourse in English Language Education (2013), and Discourse in Context (2014). He serves on the editorial boards of a range of international journals, including Critical Discourse Studies, Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Language and Politics, and Journal of English for Specific Purposes. John E Richardson is a Reader in Critical Discourse Studies at Loughborough University. He is Editor of the international journal Critical Discourse Studies and has authored or edited several books including: Analysing Media Discourses (2011), Analysing Fascist Discourse (2013), Advances in Critical Discourse Studies (with M. Krzyzanowksi, D. Machin, and R. Wodak, 2014), and British Fascism: A Discourse-Historic Analysis (forthcoming).
This Handbook is well written and organized, and its significant contribution to the development of CDS is undeniable, for it reflects the major theoretical and methodological achievements and serves as an indispensable guide for researchers and advanced students to conduct their specific research projects in CDS, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, politics, (social) media studies, communication and other neighboring disciplines. - Yunhua Xiang, College of Foreign Languages, Jilin University, P.R. China