Applied Linguistics & Communities of Practice BAAL Volume 18

by Sarangi, Srikant

• ISBN13: 9780826472809
• ISBN10: 082647280X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

The papers in this volume demonstrate the strides applied linguists have taken, in 'pure' or 'impure' form, since the classic volume of Corder's Introducing Applied Linguistics speculated about the discipline's possible frontiers.

Table of Contents

Applied linguistics and communities of practice: gaining communality or losing disciplinary autonomy?	p. 1
Final frontiers in applied linguistics?	p. 9
'Doing engineering' globally: negotiating meaning in a world-wide community of practice	p. 25
Sociolinguistic struggles in outdoor texts in a Creole-speaking community: the significance of 'embedding'	p. 39
Computer-mediated interaction: using discourse maps to represent multi-party, multi-topic asynchronous discussions	p. 60
'Now I didn't mean to break his teeth': Applying topic management to problems of power asymmetry and voluntary confessions	p. 81
Using CHILDES tool for researching second language acquisition	p. 98
Rationales for foreign language education in the 21st century	p. 114
Applied linguistics applied	p. 132
Categorisation practices across professional boundaries: some analytic insights from genetic counselling	p. 150
Quantifying non-sexist language: the case of Ms	p. 169
Interaction in the literacy hour: a case study of learners with English as an additional language	p. 184
Is the university a community of practice?	p. 203
Contributors	p. 217
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