Huang Guowen, Professor of English and Linguistics at Sun Yatsen University. He received his PhD degrees from the University of Edinburgh and the University of Wales, Cardiff. He publishes extensively both in China and abroad, His research interests include systemic functional linguistics, discourse analysis, applied linguistics and translation studies.Mohsen Ghadessy, Professor of English, has been teaching English language and linguistics in a number of countries including Iran, UK,Singapore, Brunei, and the Peoples Republic of China. He received his PhD degree in 1972 from the University of Texas at Austin in Applied Linguistics. Dr. Ghadessy has published extensively and edited a number of books on topics relatedto Systemic Functional Grammar.His current research interests areSFG and parallel texts in translation studies.Zhang Melfang, Professor of English at Sun Yat-sen University,Guangzhou, and currently Visiting Professor of the University of Macau.She received her Phi3 degree in Translation Studies from Hong Kong Baptist University in 1999. She published extensively in both English studies and translation studies. Her research interests are: translation studies, discourse analysis, and intercultural studies.