Description
Book Synopsis* Provides a comprehensive and current picture of the field of Applied Linguistics. * Contains 32 newly commissioned articles that examine both the applications of linguistics to language data and the use of real world language to ameliorate social problems.
Trade Review“Handsomely produced, and very attractive visually. The editors, Alan Davies and Catherine Elder, are leading experts in applied linguistics and they have assembled a strong group of contributors to the enterprise…
The Handbook of Applied Linguistics should be in every academic library, and I would recommend that applied linguists look at it, note specific chapters of interest, and read over those chapters carefully… Because of the depth allowed for each chapter, there is much thought-provoking material and many ideas that may challenge as well as support established positions.”
Language Teaching Research “In the vast quarry of theories and interdisciplinary investigations of applied linguistics this rigorous and scholarly book is an authoritative guide to the focal issues. It provides both original and important contributions to the literature as well as signposts to the future.” John C. Maher, International Christian University, Tokyo
“In its forty years of activity, applied linguistics has been concerned to define itself, its extent, and its relations with related fields. This handbook, edited by Davies and Catherine Elder, brings the issues up-to-date, providing not just a clear account of current work in the branches of the field by thirty of the best-known practitioners, but a cogent perspective justifying treating applied linguistics as an independent and united discipline.” Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University
“This is a linguistically sophisticated, pedagogically sound, research oriented, interdisciplinary approach at defining applied linguistics as a discipline in its own right that should be in every applied linguist's library. A vade mecum.” James E. Alatis, Georgetown University
“Davies and Elder are to be congratulated for the Handbook in Applied Linguistics. The handbook reflects the historical evolution of thinking in applied linguistics, its emerging dimensions, and successfully captures the nature of an internal critique of applied linguistics within applied linguistics. Because applied linguistics is firmly embedded within western applied linguistics, the handbook book forces us to reflect on the nature non-western applied linguistics might take.” Sinfree Makoni, Pennsylvania State University
Table of ContentsList of Figures viii
List of Tables ix
Notes on Contributors x
Acknowledgments xvi
General Introduction
Applied Linguistics: Subject to Discipline? 1
Alan Davies and Catherine Elder
Part I Linguistics-Applied (L-A) 17
Introduction to Part I 19
Alan Davies
Section 1
1 Language Descriptions 25
Anthony J. Liddicoat and Timothy J. Curnow
2 Lexicography 54
Alan Kirkness
Section 2
3 Second Language Acquisition and Ultimate Attainment 82
David Birdsong
4 Language Corpora 106
Michael Stubbs
5 Discourse Analysis 133
Hugh Trappes-Lomax
Section 3
6 British Sign Language 165
Rachel Sutton-Spence and Bencie Woll
7 Assessing Language Attitudes: Speaker Evaluation Studies 187
Howard Giles and Andrew C. Billings
8 Language Attrition 210
Monika S. Schmid and Kees de Bot
9 Language, Thought, and Culture 235
Claire Kramsch
10 Conversation Analysis 262
Rod Gardner
Section 4
11 Language and the Law 285
John Gibbons
12 Language and Gender 304
Susan Ehrlich
13 Stylistics 328
John McRae and Urszula Clark
Section 5
14 Language and Politics 347
John E. Joseph
15 World Englishes 367
Kingsley Bolton
Section 6
16 The Philosophy of Applied Linguistics 397
Kanavillil Rajagopalan
Part II Applied-Linguistics (A-L) 421
Introduction to Part II 423
Catherine Elder
Section 7
17 The Native Speaker in Applied Linguistics 431
Alan Davies
18 Language Minorities 451
John Edwards
19 Research Methods for Applied Linguistics: Scope, Characteristics, and Standards 476
James Dean Brown
Section 8
20 Second Language Learning 501
William Littlewood
21 Individual Differences in Second Language Learning 525
Rod Ellis
22 Social Influences on Language Learning 552
Gary Barkhuizen
23 Literacy Studies 576
Eddie Williams
Section 9
24 Fashions in Language Teaching Methodology 604
Bob Adamson
25 Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) 623
Paul Gruba
26 Language Teacher Education 649
Richard Johnstone
27 The Practice of LSP 672
Helen Basturkmen and Catherine Elder
28 Bilingual Education 695
Heather Lotherington
Section 10
29 Language Maintenance 719
Anne Pauwels
30 Language Planning as Applied Linguistics 738
Joseph Lo Bianco
31 Language Testing 763
Tim McNamara
Section 11
32 Critical Applied Linguistics 784
Alastair Pennycook
Index 808
