Applied Linguistics Books

New and Published Books

1. Language and Identity in Englishes

   By Urszula Clark

   Language and Identity in Englishes examines the core issues and debates surrounding the relationship between English, language and identity. Drawing on a range of international examples from the UK, US, China and India, Clark uses both cutting-edge fieldwork and her own original research to give a...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. L2 Writing in Secondary Classrooms

   Student Experiences, Academic Issues, and Teacher Education

   Edited by Luciana C. de Oliveira, Tony Silva

   Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

   Second language writers and the teaching of writing at the secondary level have received little attention compared with other skills such as reading. Addressing this gap, this volume uniquely looks at both adolescent L2 writing and the preparation of secondary teachers to work with this population...

   Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
3. Bilingual Education and Language Policy in the Global South

   Edited by Jo Arthur Shoba, Feliciano Chimbutane

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

   This volume considers a range of ways in which bilingual programs can make a contribution to aspects of human and economic development in the global South. The authors examine the consequences of different policies, programs, and pedagogies for learners and local communities through recent...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. Literacy as Translingual Practice

   Between Communities and Classrooms

   Edited by Suresh Canagarajah

   The term translingual highlights the reality that people always shuttle across languages, communicate in hybrid languages and, thus, enjoy multilingual competence. In the context of migration, transnational economic and cultural relations, digital communication, and globalism, increasing contact is...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
5. Critical ELT in Action

   Foundations, Promises, Praxis

   By Graham V. Crookes

   Uniquely bridging theory and practice, this text introduces and overviews the various domains associated with the term critical pedagogy in the field of TESOL/ELT. Critical pedagogy addresses concepts, values, curriculum, instructional and associated practices involved in language teaching for...

   Published March 7th 2013 by Routledge
6. Spoken Corpus Linguistics

   From Monomodal to Multimodal

   By Svenja Adolphs, Ronald Carter

   Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

   In this book, Adolphs and Carter explore key approaches to work in spoken corpus linguistics. The book discusses some of the pioneering challenges faced in designing, building and utilising insights from the analysis of spoken corpora, arguing that, even though writing is heavily privileged in...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
7. The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics

   Edited by James Simpson

   Series: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics

   The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics serves as an introduction and reference point to key areas in the field of applied linguistics. The five sections of the volume encompass a wide range of topics from a variety of perspectives: applied linguistics in action language learning, language...

   Published February 17th 2013 by Routledge
8. Corpus Approaches to Evaluation

   Phraseology and Evaluative Language

   By Susan Hunston

   Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

   This book applies a set of corpus investigation techniques to the study of evaluation, or stance, or affect, in naturally-occurring discourse. Evaluative language indicates opinions, attitudes, and judgments. It is an important part of activities such as persuading someone that a particular...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
9. The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics

   Edited by Malcolm Coulthard, Alison Johnson

   Series: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics

   The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics provides a unique work of reference to the leading ideas, debates, topics, approaches and methodologies in Forensic Linguistics. Forensic Linguistics is the study of language and the law, covering topics from legal language and courtroom discourse to...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
10. Metaphor and Reconciliation

    The Discourse Dynamics of Empathy in Post-Conflict Conversations

    By Lynne Cameron

    Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics

    Sixteen years after her father was killed by an IRA bomb, Jo Berry had her first conversation with the man responsible. She had made a long journey, ‘walking the footsteps of the bombers’ as she put it, determined not to give in to anger and revenge but to try to understand his motivations and...

    Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge