Michael Hoey is Baines Professor of English Language and Director of the Applied English Language Studies Unit at the University of Liverpool. His major publications are Signalling in Discourse (1979), On the Surface of Discourse (1983/91), Patterns of Lexis in Text (1991), which was awarded the Duke of Edinburgh English Speaking Union Prize for the best book on Applied Linguistics in 1991, and the edited collection, Data Description Discourse (1993).