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Contemporary Applied Linguistics (Set) Volume I and II

edited by Li Wei
edited by Vivian Cook

Presents a comprehensive survey of the ways in which linguistics is being used by researchers in a wide-range of interdisciplinary areas.

  • Imprint: Continuum
  • Series: Contemporary Studies in Linguistics
  • Pub. date: 23 Aug 2009
  • ISBN: 9780826497451
504 Pages, hardcover World rights
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Description

Contemporary Applied Linguistics presents a comprehensive survey of the ways in which linguistics is being used by researchers in a wide-range of interdisciplinary areas. Written by internationally renowned scholars, the volumes consist of twenty-four introductory chapters providing a snapshot of cutting edge research in applied linguistics, highlighting the advances in knowledge and methodology and setting the agenda for the field for the next few decades. The contributors in the first volume present current research in the core areas of applied linguistics, including multilingualism, language education, teacher-learner relationships, and assessment. Chapters in volume two present an overview of new and interdisciplinary applications of linguistics to such diverse fields as economics, law, religion, tourism, media and health care.

It represents the best of current practice in applied linguistics, and will be invaluable to students and researchers looking for an overview of the field.

Table of Contents

Volume 1: Language Teaching and Learning
Introduction: language learning and teaching (editors)
1. Politics, Policies and Political Action in Foreign Language Education, Mike Byram (University of Durham, UK)
2. Identity in applied linguistics: the need for conceptual exploration, David Block (Institute of Education, UK)
3. Language user groups and language teaching, Vivian Cook (Newcastle University, UK)
4. Language Learning as Discursive Practice, Joan Kelly Hall (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
5. Motivation, attitude and perception, Jean Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck College, UK)
6. Interlanguage and Fossilisation: Towards an Analytic Model (Zhao-Hong Han, Teachers College Columbia, USA)
7. Developments in language learner strategies, Ernesto Macaro (Oxford University, UK)
8. We do need methods (Michael Swan)
9. Integrating Content-Based and Task-Based Approaches for Teaching, Learning, and Research, Teresa Pica (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
10. The decline and fall of the native speaker teacher, Enric Llurda (University of Lleida, Catalonia)
11. Third culture and language education, Claire Kramsch (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
12. New roles for L2 vocabulary?, Paul Nation (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Introduction: Language in the globalized world
Volume 2: Language For the Real World
1. Multilingualism, gender and globalisation (Aneta Pavlenko, Temple University, USA & Ingrid Pillar, University of Sydney, Australia)
2. Language and economy (Florian Coulmas, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo)
3. Linguistic diversity, biodiversity and poverty (Suzanne Romaine, University of Oxford, UK)
4. Discourse in organisations and workplace (Britt-Louise Gunnarsson, Uppsala University, Sweden)
5. Multimodal discourses (Gu Yueguo, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China)
6. Language and culture (Nick Enfield, UCLA, USA)
7. Language in legal contexts/forensic linguistics (John Gibbons, University of New South Wales, Australia)
8. Translation and politics (Christina Schaeffner, Aston University, UK)
9. Religious language management (Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
10. Language and the Brain (Marjorie Lorch, Birbeck College University of London, UK)
11. Clinical linguistics (Martin Ball, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA and Nicole Mueller, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)
12. Sign linguistics, sign language learning and sign bilingualism (Gary Morgan, University College London, UK and Bencie Woll, University College London, UK)

Author(s)

Li Wei,

Li Wei is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Birbeck, University of London, UK.

Vivian Cook,

Vivian Cook is Professor Applied Linguistics at the University of Newcastle, UK.

Reviews

"These volumes take their mission seriously: to build the future of applied linguistics, grounded in language but with a broad concern for real-world issues. The volumes make for rewarding reading and demonstrate the continuing and renewed relevance of applied linguistics."
- Professor Diane Larsen-Freeman, English Language Institute, University of a Michigan, USA

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