Michael Hoey
Chief Adviser

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 include 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). His most recent book is Textual Interaction (2001). He is co-editor with Tony McEnery of a series of books on Corpus Linguistics, published by Routledge, and is Chief Adviser on the Macmillan English Dictionary and Macmillan Essential Dictionary, and the author of the foreword the Macmillan English Dictionary. His administrative roles include that of Chair of the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance’s English Committee. He is also a keen supporter of CAMRA and is currently editing a Real Ale Guide for Southport & District. So if you see him at any of the Macmillan sponsored lectures he is giving, do be sure to tell him where the nearest microbrewery is to be found (and, even better, take him there).