1st Edition
Applying Linguistics Language and the Impact Agenda
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 leading scholars, such as M. Lynne Murphy, David Britain, Peter French and Bas Aarts;
- discussion of impact from the perspective of the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF);
- insights and opinions from academics, practitioners and journalists;
- personal reflection on the nature of impact from the ESRC’s Interim Chief Executive;
- practical advice on generating and evidencing impact.
With chapters from international authors exploring impact both within and outside the context of the UK REF, Applying Linguistics: Language and the Impact Agenda will be essential reading for early-career researchers, established academics and PhD students interested in developing impact from their research.
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
List of figures
List of tables
Introduction
- Linguistics, language and the impact agenda
- Assessing the value of research in linguistics
- Reflections on impact
- Navigating the peripheries of impact: public engagement and the problem of kneejerk linguistics
- Public engagement as linguistic impact
- Language and impact: perspectives from outside the academy
- Using impact to make impact? Experiences from a dialect crowdsourcing project
- From corpus to clinic: health communication research and the impact agenda
- The impact of linguistics on AVT research and practice
- Language in conflict: linguistics in mediation
- Evaluating the impact of language documentation and revitalization
- Assessing research impact in forensic speech science casework
- Using corpora for English language teaching and learning
- Future challenges of the impact agenda
Dan McIntyre and Hazel Price
Part 1: Impact in theory
Dan McIntyre
Tony McEnery
Hazel Price
M. Lynne Murphy
Neil Robinson
Part 2: Impact in practice
David Britain, Adrian Leeman and Marie-Jose Kolly
Gavin Brookes, Kevin Harvey and Louise Mullany
Silvia Bruti and Serenella Zanotti
Lesley Jeffries, Jim O’Driscoll and Matthew Evans
Shobhana Chelliah
Dominic Watt and Peter French
Bas Aarts and Ellen Smith
Afterword
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