Applied Linguistics in Action: A Reader presents students with an applied linguistics framework for the analysis of real-world problems in which language is a central issue. The reader allows students to develop both the theoretical and empirical skills crucial to the practicalities of language teaching and other language-related professional practices.
Part One brings together seven key discussions of the nature and direction of contemporary applied linguistics, relating theory and description of language in use to educational and other professional contexts. Issues include the politics of applied linguistics, its responses to globalisation, and its relation to social theory.
While the discussions in Part One are largely theoretical, Part Two, through abridged versions of thirteen case studies, demonstrates at a much more practical level how general principles formulated in Part One, can be applied to a range of specific real-world problems. While the majority of studies are from educational settings, the breadth of current applied linguistic enquiry is illustrated by others relating to legal forensics, literary analysis, translation, language therapy, lexicography, and workplace communication.
The editors’ introductions, both to the volume as a whole and to each individual part, guide the student through the difficult transition from general discussion to specific application, highlighting the most significant issues, and helping the student to see the relevance of both general theory and specific applications to the needs of their own studies, and their professional practice beyond. Applied Linguistics in Action: A Reader is essential reading for advanced level undergraduates and postgraduates on Applied Linguistics, English Language, and TESOL/TEFL courses.
Contents
Introduction
Part One: Applied linguistics in theory
Introduction to Part One
- The theory of practice
- Language, linguistics, and education
- Continuity and change in views of society in applied linguistics
- Making connections: Some key issues in social theory and applied linguistics
- Why a Global Language?
- The ownership of English
H.G. Widdowson
Christopher Brumfit
Ben Rampton
Alison Sealey and Bob Carter
Part Two: English in the world
Introduction to Part Two
David Crystal
H.G. Widdowson
7. English in the world/The world in English
Alastair Pennycook
8. The (Re-) framing process as a collaborative locus for change
Branca F. Fabrício and Denise Santos
9. A sociolinguistically based, empirically researched pronunciation syllabus for English as an international language
Jennifer Jenkins
Part Three: Applied linguistics in action
Introduction to Part Three
- Interpreting inexplicit language during courtroom examination
- One word or two? Psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic interpretations of meaning in a civil court case
- My recaller is on vacation: Discourse analysis of nursing-home residents with dementia Katinka Dijkstra, Michelle Bourgeois, Geoffrey Petrie, Lou Burgio and Rebecca Allen-Burge
- Transforming research on morphology into teacher practice
- Sources, methods and triangulation in needs analysis: A critical perspective in a case study of
- The Grammar of conversation
- Idioms in everyday use and in language teaching
- Bumping into creative idiomaticity
- Time, tense and perception in the narrative voice of Bret Easton Ellis’s Lunar Park
- Applied linguists and institutions of opinion
Jieun Lee
Alison Wray and John J. Staczek
Jane Hurry, Terezinha Nunes, Peter Bryant, Ursula Pretzlik, Mary Parker, Tamsin Curno
and Lucinda Midgley
Waikiki hotel maids
Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar
S. Thornbury and D. Slade
A. O'Keefe, M. McCarthy and R. Carter
Luke Prodromou
Philip Seargeant
Greg Myers
Biography
Guy Cook is Professor of Language and Education at the Open University. His books include The Language of Advertising (ed., Routledge 2008), Genetically Modified Language (Routledge 2004), and Applied Linguistics (2003).
Sarah North is a senior lecturer in applied language studies at the Open University. Recent publications include chapters in A Companion to English Language Studies (Routledge 2009), and Language & Literacy: Functional Approaches (2006).
'This is an expertly put-together collection of articles that represent some of the most important and exciting work in applied linguistics. It offers the reader a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the key areas of the field today. It is an excellent resource for students and instructors alike.' - Li Wei, University of London, Birkbeck College
'This is an excellent volume...a must for anybody who is pursuing a higher degree in the field.' - Amy B M Tsui, The University of Hong Kong
