Hall Christopher J. - Mapping applied linguistics: a guide for students and practitioners

Mapping Applied Linguistics

Mapping Applied Linguistics: A guide for students and practitioners provides an innovative and wide-ranging introduction to the full scope of applied linguistics.

Incorporating both socio-cultural and cognitive perspectives, the book maps the diverse and constantly expanding range of theories, methods and issues faced by students and practitioners alike. Practically oriented and ideally suited to students new to the subject area, each chapter demonstrates how applied linguists can investigate the role of language in an individuals or groups real-world problem, and the potential solutions available.

The book provides in-depth coverage of:

Language teaching and education, literacy and language disorders

Language variation and World Englishes

Language policy and planning

Lexicography and forensic linguistics

Multilingualism and translation

Including real data and international examples from Latin America, South-East Asia, the US and the UK, the book features further reading and exercises in each chapter, fieldwork suggestions and a full glossary of key terms. An interactive companion website also provides a wealth of additional resources, including ideas for research projects, links to key websites and sample answers to the chapter exercises. A reader forum allows students and practitioners to share experiences and concerns.

Providing a dynamic and thorough overview of the rapidly growing field of applied linguistics, this book will be essential reading for students studying applied linguistics, TESOL, general linguistics and education at the advanced undergraduate or masters degree level. It is also the ideal gateway for practitioners to better understand the wider scope of their work.

Christopher J. Hall is a Senior Lecturer at York St John University, UK and currently teaches on the BA in English Language and the MA in TESOL.

Patrick H. Smith is Associate Professor of Literacy/Biliteracy at The University of Texas at El Paso, USA.

Rachel Wicaksono is a Senior Lecturer at York St John University, UK and Head of Programme for the MA in TESOL.

Mapping Applied Linguistics is far and away the best introduction to applied linguistics we have to date. But it is more than that. It is a major contribution to the very definition and foundations of the field. It will be viewed as a seminal book.

James Paul Gee, Arizona State University, US

The authors of Mapping Applied Linguistics have included broad socio-cultural and critical perspectives on the key issues and methodologies in applied linguistics. It is written in language that is accessible to the general reader as well as advanced undergraduate or postgraduate students. It will provide a much-needed comprehensive introduction to the field.

Angel Lin, University of Hong Kong

This book covers an impressively wide range of topics that are of interest to students of applied linguistics. It offers a detailed discussion of the fundamentals of a number of sub-disciplines with the help of a variety of fascinating examples and case studies, all presented in a lively and accessible style.

Geri Popova, Goldsmiths University of London, UK

This textbook is a lot more than a carefully assembled survey of major developments and issues in applied linguistics; it helps us see the relevance of the study of language in our everyday experience.

Constant Leung, Kings College London, UK

Mapping Applied Linguistics is a comprehensive introduction and guide to many of the areas which comprise Applied Linguistics.

Urszula Clark, Aston University, UK

Mapping Applied Linguistics

A guide for students and practitioners

CHRISTOPHER J. HALL, PATRICK H. SMITH AND RACHEL WICAKSONO

First published 2011

by Routledge

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2011 Christopher J. Hall, Patrick H. Smith and Rachel Wicaksono

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hall, Christopher J., 1961

Mapping applied linguistics : a guide for students and practitioners / Christopher J Hall, Patrick H Smith, Rachel Wicaksono.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Applied linguistics. 2. Language and languagesStudy and teaching.

I. Smith, Patrick H. II. Wicaksono, Rachel. III. Title.

P129.H27 2011

418dc22

2010031444

ISBN13: 9780415559126 (hbk)

ISBN13: 9780415559133 (pbk)

ISBN13: 9780203832424 (ebk)

Dedications

For Juan always (CJH)

Para la Luz de mi vida (PHS)

For Rian and Clara (RW)

Contents

Figures

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Preface

A map is a representation, an abstraction, a surface that can be dealt with.

It is the product of an exacting rationality, and it furthers the conquest of system-making over the melange of the everyday.

(Ralph Cintron, Angels Town: Chero ways, gang life, and rhetorics of the everyday)

This book presents the complex and shifting field of applied linguistics as a surface that can be dealt with. Scholars and practitioners in the field are concerned with the language-related needs of individuals and groups in the melange of the everyday, all the way from foreign language learning to literacy skills, from translation to trademark disputes, from the protection of endangered languages to the detection of dyslexia. The map we provide here systematically plots the landscapes of applied linguistics at the opening of the second decade of the twenty-first century. Its a time of unparalleled changes, including unprecedented flows of people, goods and services across linguistic and national boundaries, the increased interconnectedness of global capital and economic systems, and a staggering array of new and ever faster forms of digital technology. These technologies have direct relevance for identifying, and attempting to resolve, the language needs faced by language users (and applied linguists), and they feature prominently in all chapters of the book. Indeed, just as we get directions now from GPS systems and online maps, this book is part of a broader online applied linguistics project anchored in its companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/hall/.