The Handbook of Applied Linguistics

by Davies, Alan; Elder, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9781405138093
• ISBN10: 1405138092
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780470756751
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-17
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

The Handbook of Applied Linguistics is a collection of over 30 original articles that provide a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the field of applied linguistics. The handbook is divided in parts that demonstrate the two main approaches to the field: applications of linguistics to real world language data with the purpose of further understanding language and evaluating linguistic theory; and the problem-based approach that investigates real world language with the purpose of understanding language use and ameliorating social problems. The handbook presents applied linguistics as an independent and coherent discipline that seeks to unify practical experience and theoretical understanding of language development and language in use, and is a valuable resource for students and researchers in applied linguistics, language teaching, and second language acquisition.

Author Biography

Alan Davies is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include Principles of Language Testing (1990), An Introduction to Applied Linguistics (1999), and The Native Speaker: Myth and Reality (2003).

Catherine Elder is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the author, with Alan Davies et al., of the Dictionary of Language Testing (1999) and co-editor of Experimenting with Uncertainty (2001).

Table of Contents

List of Figures	viii
List of Tables	ix
Notes on Contributors	x
Acknowledgments	xvi
General Introduction Applied Linguistics: Subject to Discipline?	1	(16)
Alan Davies
Catherine Elder
Part I Linguistics-Applied (L-A)	17	(404)
Introduction to Part I	19	(6)
Alan Davies
Section 1
Language Descriptions	25	(29)
Anthony J. Liddicoat
Timothy J. Curnow
Lexicography	54	(28)
Alan Kirkness
Section 2
Second Language Acquisition and Ultimate Attainment	82	(24)
David Birdsong
Language Corpora	106	(27)
Michael Stubbs
Discourse Analysis	133	(32)
Hugh Trappes-Lomax
Section 3
British Sign Language	165	(22)
Rachel Sutton-Spence
Bencie Woll
Assessing Language Attitudes: Speaker Evaluation Studies	187	(23)
Howard Giles
Andrew C. Billings
Language Attrition	210	(25)
Monika S. Schmid
Kees De Bot
Language, Thought, and Culture	235	(27)
Claire Kramsch
Conversation Analysis	262	(23)
Rod Gardner
Section 4
Language and the Law	285	(19)
John Gibbons
Language and Gender	304	(24)
Susan Ehrlich
Stylistics	328	(19)
John McRae
Urszula Clark
Section 5
Language and Politics	347	(20)
John E. Joseph
World Englishes	367	(30)
Kingsley Bolton
Section 6
The Philosophy of Applied Linguistics	397	(24)
Kanavillil Rajagopalan
Part II Applied-Linguistics (A-L)	421	(387)
Introduction to Part II	423	(8)
Catherine Elder
Section 7
The Native Speaker in Applied Linguistics	431	(20)
Alan Davies
Language Minorities	451	(25)
John Edwards
Research Methods for Applied Linguistics: Scope, Characteristics, and Standards	476	(25)
James Dean Brown
Section 8
Second Language Learning	501	(24)
William Littlewood
Individual Differences in Second Language Learning	525	(27)
Rod Ellis
Social Influences on Language Learning	552	(24)
Gary Barkhuizen
Literacy Studies	576	(28)
Eddie Williams
Section 9
Fashions in Language Teaching Methodology	604	(19)
Bob Adamson
Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)	623	(26)
Paul Gruba
Language Teacher Education	649	(23)
Richard Johnstone
The Practice of LSP	672	(23)
Helen Basturkmen
Catherine Elder
Bilingual Education	695	(24)
Heather Lotherington
Section 10
Language Maintenance	719	(19)
Anne Pauwels
Language Planning as Applied Linguistics	738	(25)
Joseph Lo Bianco
Language Testing	763	(21)
Tim McNamara
Section 11
Critical Applied Linguistics	784	(24)
Alastair Pennycook
Index	808