VIJAY BHATIA is Professor in the Department of English at the City University of Hong Kong. His main areas of research are applied genre analysis of academic and professional discourse, including legal, business, newspaper, advertising and other promotional genres; ESP theory and practice; simplification of legal and other public documents; cross-cultural and disciplinary variation in professional discourse. He has served on the editorial advisory board of English for Specific Purposes, RELC Journal and World Englishes. He has published in most of the major journals in applied linguistics, ESP and discourse analysis. His important overseas consultancies include: a UN Development Programme project on the use of English in meeting the needs of Business and Technology in Singapore ; and an ASEAN-New Zealand Project on the use of English in Business and Technology. He has also advised the Educational Testing Service at Princeton on the design of their test of English for International Business Communication.
His major publications include Analyzing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings (1993), Legal Discourse in a Multilingual and Multicultural Context : Arbitration in Europe (with C. N. Candlin and M. Gotti, 2003), Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts of Legislation: An International Perspective (with C. N. Candlin, J. Engberg and A. Trosborg, 2003), Words of Written Discourse (2004), Vagueness in Normative Texts (with M. Gotti, J. Engberg, and D. Heller, 2005), Exploration in Specialized Genres (with M. Gotti, 2006), Legal Discourse across Cultures and Systems (with C. N. Candlin, and J. Engberg, 2007) .
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