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Applying Linguistics: Language and the Impact Agenda book cover

1st Edition

Applying Linguistics Language and the Impact Agenda

Edited By Dan McIntyre, Hazel Price Copyright 2018
226 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Applying Linguistics: Language and the Impact Agenda explores the challenges of demonstrating the socio-cultural and economic impact of research in linguistics. The chapters provide critical discussion of the concept of impact, as well as an examination of both the constraints and opportunities of the impact agenda. The book includes: case studies of impact-focused research from... Read more

Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

List of figures

List of tables

Introduction

  1. Linguistics, language and the impact agenda

    2. Dan McIntyre and Hazel Price

    Part 1: Impact in theory

  2. Assessing the value of research in linguistics

    3. Dan McIntyre

  3. Reflections on impact

    4. Tony McEnery

  4. Navigating the peripheries of impact: public engagement and the problem of kneejerk linguistics

    5. Hazel Price

  5. Public engagement as linguistic impact

    6. M. Lynne Murphy

  6. Language and impact: perspectives from outside the academy

    7. Neil Robinson

    Part 2: Impact in practice

  7. Using impact to make impact? Experiences from a dialect crowdsourcing project

    8. David Britain, Adrian Leeman and Marie-Jose Kolly

  8. From corpus to clinic: health communication research and the impact agenda

    9. Gavin Brookes, Kevin Harvey and Louise Mullany

  9. The impact of linguistics on AVT research and practice

    10. Silvia Bruti and Serenella Zanotti

  10. Language in conflict: linguistics in mediation

    11. Lesley Jeffries, Jim O’Driscoll and Matthew Evans

  11. Evaluating the impact of language documentation and revitalization

    12. Shobhana Chelliah

  12. Assessing research impact in forensic speech science casework

    13. Dominic Watt and Peter French

  13. Using corpora for English language teaching and learning

    14. Bas Aarts and Ellen Smith

    Afterword

  14. Future challenges of the impact agenda

Jane Setter

References

Biography

Dan McIntyre is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Huddersfield, UK.

Hazel Price is Research Officer in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages at the University of Huddersfield, UK.

'McIntyre and Price have assembled a diverse yet accessible collection of papers that discusses how linguists can create real-world impact through the application and promotion of their research.'
Jack Grieve, Professorial Fellow in Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham, UK

'This is an important and timely volume bringing together contributions on the impact of linguistics in a wide variety of different areas. Offering explorations of the challenges and opportunities of the impact agenda for linguistics, this is essential reading, not just for linguists in the UK, but for all applied linguists and anyone affected by, or interested in, the impact of linguistics.'
Monika Bednarek, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia

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