Michael Handford

Michael Handford is Associate Professor in English Language at the University of Tokyo, where he lectures on and teaches business English, institutional discourse, intercultural communication, discourse analysis and pragmatics. His areas of interest are business discourse, discourse analysis, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, genre, English as an international business language, and intercultural communication. He also works as a business communication consultant in Japan. He has published in the areas of corpus linguistics, professional discourse and English language teaching, and regularly attends and presents at international conferences.