Applied Linguistics Books

New and Published Books

1. Markets of English

   Linguistic Capital and Language Policy in a Globalizing World

   By Joseph Sung-Yul Park, Lionel Wee

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   The global spread of English both reproduces and reinforces oppressive structures of inequality. But such structures can no longer be seen as imposed from an imperial center, as English is now actively adopted and appropriated in local contexts around the world. This book argues that such...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Translation Studies Reader

   3rd Edition

   Edited by Lawrence Venuti

   The Translation Studies Reader provides a definitive survey of the most important and influential developments in translation theory and research, with an emphasis on twentieth-century developments. With introductory essays prefacing each section, the book places a wide range of seminal and...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
3. The Battle over Spanish between 1800 and 2000

   Language & Ideologies and Hispanic Intellectuals

   Edited by Luis Gabriel-Stheeman, José del Valle

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics

   This book examines the way in which a group of key Spanish and Latin American intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries discussed the concept of the Spanish language. The contributors analyse the ways in which these discussions related to the construction of national identities and...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Ambiguities and Tensions in English Language Teaching

   Portraits of EFL Teachers as Legitimate Speakers

   By Peter Sayer

   Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

   The central theme of this book is the ambiguities and tensions teachers face as they attempt to position themselves in ways that legitimize them as language teachers, and as English speakers. Focusing on three EFL teachers and their schools in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, it...

   Published May 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Language Planning in Primary Schools in Asia

   Edited by Richard Baldauf, Robert Kaplan, Knonko Kamwangamalu, Pauline Bryant

   In foreign language education, decisions must be taken on what languages to teach, who will teach them, in which schools (i.e. all, only urban, only rural), in which grades, the number of hours a week, and the cost involved. This book explores the answers to these questions across a number of Asian...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
6. Analyzing Public Discourse

   Discourse Analysis in the Making of Public Policy

   By Ron Scollon

   Analyzing Public Discourse demonstrates the use of discourse analysis to provide testimony in public policy consultations: from environmental impact statements to changes in laws and policies. Scollon asserts that it is in the best interest of democratic public discourse for all participants in the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Multilingualism, Discourse, and Ethnography

   Edited by Sheena Gardner, Marilyn Martin-Jones

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

   Over the last twenty years, sociolinguistic research on multilingualism has been transformed. Two processes have been at work: first, an epistemological shift to a critical ethnographic approach, which has contributed to a larger turn toward post-structuralist perspectives on social life. Second,...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
8. New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality

   Edited by Ruth Page

   Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

   The contributors in this collection question what kinds of relationships hold between narrative studies and the recently established field of multimodality, evaluate how we might develop an analytical vocabulary which recognizes that stories do not consist of words alone, and demonstrate the...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
9. Pragmatics

   An Advanced Resource Book for Students

   By Dawn Archer, Karin Aijmer, Anne Wichmann

   Series: Routledge Applied Linguistics

   Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and applied linguistics. Each book in the series guides readers through three main sections, enabling them to...

   Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
10. Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion

    An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind

    By Michael Burke

    Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics

    This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have been made in text-processing methodology and practice, very little is known about this cultural-cognitive process and...

    Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge