Applied LinguisticsApplied Linguistics investigates real-world problems involving language. As such it has the difficult task of mediating between academic expertise and lived experience, attempting to reconcile opposed interests and perspectives. This clearly written introduction provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the most pressing and controversial issues surrounding contemporary language use today, including intercultural communication, political persuasion, new technologies, the growth of English, language in education, and foreign language teaching and learning. |
Contents
Applied linguistics | 3 |
Examples and procedures | 5 |
The scope of applied linguistics | 7 |
a difficult relationship | 9 |
Prescribing and describing popular and academic views of correctness | 12 |
Description versus prescription | 15 |
An applied linguistics perspective | 18 |
Languages in the contemporary world | 21 |
The influence of communicative competence | 46 |
Context and culture | 49 |
discourse analysis | 50 |
Culture | 52 |
Translation culture and context | 55 |
rights and understanding | 57 |
Persuasion and poetics rhetoric and resistance | 60 |
Literary stylistics | 61 |
Attitudes to languages | 22 |
boundaries and relationships | 23 |
The growth of English | 25 |
English and Englishes | 26 |
Native speakers | 28 |
English as a Lingua Franca ELF | 29 |
English Language Teaching ELT | 31 |
The direct method | 33 |
Natural language learning | 34 |
The communicative approach | 35 |
Language and communication | 40 |
Linguistic competence | 41 |
Communicative competence | 42 |
Language and persuasion | 63 |
Critical Discourse Analysis CDA | 64 |
Past present and future directions | 69 |
SecondLanguage Acquisition SLA | 71 |
Corpus linguistics | 73 |
Being applied | 74 |
Critical Applied Linguistics CALx | 75 |
Postmodern applied linguistics | 77 |
mediation | 78 |
Readings | 81 |
References | 115 |
Glossary | 125 |
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