Alan Davies / Catherine Elder (eds.)

Gebundenes Buch

The Handbook of Applied Linguistics

Beschreibung

The Handbook of Applied Linguistics is a collection of over 30 newly commissioned 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 (sometimes called linguistics applied or L-A) to real world language data with the purpose of further understanding language and evaluating linguistic theory; and the problem-based approach (known as applied linguistics or A-L) 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.

Review:
In the vast quarry of theories and interdisciplinary investigations of applied linguistics this rigorous and scholarly book is an authoritative guide to the focal issues. It provides both original and important contributions to the literature as well as signposts to the future.' 'John C. Maher, International Christian University, Tokyo

In its forty years of activity, applied linguistics has been concerned to define itself, its extent, and its relations with related fields. This handbook, edited by Davies and Catherine Elder, brings the issues up-to-date, providing not just a clear account of current work in the branches of the field by thirty of the best-known practitioners, but a cogent perspective justifying treating applied linguistics as an independent and united discipline.' Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University

This is a linguistically sophisticated, pedagogically sound, research oriented, interdisciplinary approach at defining applied linguistics as a discipline in its own right that should be in every applied linguist's library. A vade mecum.' 'James E. Alatis, Georgetown University'

Davies and Elder are to be congratulated for the Handbook in Applied Linguistics. The handbook reflects the historical evolution of thinking in applied linguistics, its emerging dimensions, and successfully captures the nature of an internal critique of applied linguistics within applied linguistics. Because applied linguistics is firmly embedded within western applied linguistics, the handbook book forces us to reflect on the nature non-western applied linguistics might take.' 'Sinfree Makoni, Pennsylvania State University'

Table of contents:
Acknowledgements.
Notes on Contributors.
Volume Introduction: Alan Davies (University of Edinburgh) and Catherine Elder (University of Auckland).
Part I: Linguistics-Applied (L-A):
Introduction to Part 1: Alan Davies (University of Edinburgh).
1. Language Descriptions: Antony .J.Liddicoat (Griffith University) and T.J.Curnow (La Trobe University).
2. Lexicography: Alan Kirkness (University of Auckland).
3. SLA and Ultimate Attainment: David Birdsong (University of Texas, Austin).
4. Language Corpora: Mike Stubbs (University of Trier).
5. Discourse Analysis: Hugh Trappes-Lomax (University of Edinburgh).
6. British Sign Language: Rachel Sutton-Spence (University of Bristol) and Bencie Wol (City University London).
7. Assessing Language Attitudes: Howard Giles (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Antony L. Billings (Clemson University).
8. Language Attrition: Monika S. Schmid (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) and Kees de Bot (University of Groningen).
9. Language, Culture and Thought: Claire Kramsch (University of California, Berkeley).
10. Conversation Analysis: Rod Gardner (University of New South Wales).
11. Language and the Law: John Gibbons (Hong Kong Baptist University).
12. Language and Gender: Susan Ehrlich (York University).
13. Stylistics: John McRae (University of Nottingham) and Urzula Clark (University of Wolverhampton).
14. Language and Politics: John Joseph (University of Edinburgh).
15. World Englishes: Kingsley Bolton (University of Hong Kong).
16. The Philosophy of Applied Linguistics: Kanavillil Rajagopalan (State University at Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil).
Part II: Applied-Linguistics (A-L):
Introduction to Part 2: Catherine Elder (University of Auckland).
17. The Native Speaker: Alan Davies (University of Edinburgh).
18. Language Minorities: John Edwards (St. Francis Xavier University).
19. Research Methods: James Dean Brown (University of Hawai'i, Manoa).
20. Language Learning: William Littlewood (Hong Kong Baptist University).
21. Individual Differences in Language Learning: Rod Ellis (University of Auckland).
22. Social Influences on Language Learning: Gary Barkhuizen (University of Auckland).
23. Literacy Studies: Eddie Williams (University of Reading).

24. Fashions in Language Teaching Methodology: Bob Adamson (Queensland University of Technology).
25. Computer Assisted Language Learning: Paul Gruba (University of Melbourne).
26. Language Teacher Education: Richard Johnstone (University of Stirling).

27. Bilingual Education: Heather Lotherington (York University).
28. The Practice of LSP: Helen Basturkmen (University of Auckland) and Catherine Elder (University of Auckland).
29. Language Maintenance: Anne Pauwels (University of Western Australia).
30. Language Planning: Joseph Lo Bianco (Language Australia: NLLIA).
31. Language Testing: Tim McNamara (University of Melbourne).
32. Critical Applied Linguistics: Alastair Pennycook (University of Technology, Sydney).
Index.

Autor

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 Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics at the University of Auckland. She is the author, with Alan Davies et al., of the Dictionary of Language Testing (1999) and co-editor of Experimenting with Uncertainty (2001).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishing
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780631228998
• ISBN-10: 0631228993
• Artikelnr.: 26696030