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Introducing Linguistics

This outstanding series is an indispensable resource for students and teachers – a concise and engaging introduction to the central subjects of contemporary linguistics. Presupposing no prior knowledge on the part of the reader, each volume sets out the fundamental skills and knowledge of the field, and so provides the ideal educational platform for further study in linguistics.

1.Andrew SpencerPhonology
2.John I. Saeed Semantics, Third Edition
3.Barbara JohnstoneDiscourse Analysis, Second Edition
4.Andrew CarnieSyntax, Third Edition
5.Anne Baker and Kees HengeveldLinguistics
6.Li Wei, editorApplied Linguistics

Applied Linguistics

Edited by

Li Wei

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Notes on Contributors

Editor

Li Wei is Chair of Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, where he is also Pro-Vice-Master and Director of the Birkbeck Graduate Research School. His research interests are primarily in bilingualism and multilingualism. He is the Principal Editor of the International Journal of Bilingualism. Among his many publications is the award-winning Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism (co-edited by Melissa Moyer). He is Chair of the University Council of General and Applied Linguistics (UCGAL), UK and an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK.

Contributors

Jean-Marc Dewaele is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. His research interests cover a wide range including multilingualism, multiculturalism, and psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, pragmatic and psychological aspects of second/foreign language acquisition and production. He is specifically interested in individual differences in foreign language acquisition and multilingualism. He has published numerous books and articles, including the monograph Emotions in Multilingual Languages. He is a former President of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA) and is currently Editor of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

Malcolm Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. His research interests cover descriptive and theoretical syntax as well as Discourse Analysis and translation studies. He has published on the syntax of spoken Egyptian Arabic, grammatical issues in the analysis of code-switching, and semantic and pragmatic issues in film translation.

Penelope Gardner-Chloros is Professor of Sociolinguistics and Language Contact at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Her research interests include code-switching, pronouns of address, minority languages in Europe and bilingual arts and artists. She is author of Language Selection and Switching in Strasbourg and Code-Switching. She is currently carrying out a large comparative study of the influence of multilingualism on Parisian French and London English.

Marjorie Lorch is Professor of Neurolinguistics at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Her main research interest is in understanding how language is organized in the brain through the investigation of neurogenic language and communication disorders, with a specific interest in cross-linguistic comparisons and bilingual speakers. In addition, she carries out theoretical work in neurolinguistics from a historical perspective, focusing on the nineteenth-century history of ideas about language and communication.

Lisa J. McEntee-Atalianis is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Communication at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Her research interests include language and identity, Deaf Studies and psycholinguistics. She has published on agrammatism, sign language, language attitude and ethnolinguistic vitality, and is currently researching the globalization of English and its impact on issues of language planning, policy and practice at an organizational level.

María Elena Placencia is Reader in Spanish Linguistics at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She is co-founder of the International Association for the Study of Spanish in Society (SIS). Her main research interests lie in socio- and variational pragmatics, Discourse Analysis and Intercultural Communication. She has published extensively on (im)politeness in familial and institutional contexts, cultural styles of rapport management, forms and functions of small talk, the language of service encounters, address forms and discursive racism in interethnic communication, as well as Spanish as a foreign language.

Zhu Hua is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Communication at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Her research interests span across Intercultural Communication and child language development. She is author of Exploring Intercultural Communication: Language in Action and Phonological Development in Specific Contexts, and editor of The Language and Intercultural Communication Reader and Phonological Development and Disorders (with Barbara Dodd).

Acknowledgements

This book has truly been a long time coming! It started as a team project, with a genuine belief that a multi-voiced volume would be more appropriate for an introductory text on a field as diverse as Applied Linguistics than a single-authored one. We still believe it, although we are not 100 % sure if the end result is discord or harmony. We certainly have tried our best to achieve an acceptable level of consistency in the text, but individuality definitely shines through.

The assignment of the chapters was not based entirely on the author’s proven expertise. Indeed, some of us are writing for the first time on the assigned topics. The nature of the introductory textbook means that we have to draw on a huge amount of work done by colleagues in the field other than ourselves. We have tried to acknowledge this fact through the references, but it is inevitable that not every single source of information is completely acknowledged. We hereby ask for your understanding and forgiveness.

We are most grateful to Danielle Descoteaux for her faith in us in commissioning this volume, and to Julia Kirk for her patience and support throughout the project. Too many people have been involved in various aspects of the project to be named here. Our students over the last three years have used draft versions of parts of the text, probably without fully realizing it. Colleagues from other institutions have contributed to the volume by discussing various issues with us and providing crucial information and references.

Contributors to the volume are all members of the Applied Linguistics team at Birkbeck College, University of London. Three people spent a considerable amount of time helping the editor with copy-editing, checking references, formatting and proofreading the drafts. They are Rosemary Wilson, Jennifer Watson and Brigid O’Connor. The project could not have been completed without their help.

The diagrams in Chapter 1 were drawn by Steve Stamp, who also helped with other technical issues. Part of the text in Chapter 1, Section 1.2 is taken from the introduction written by Vivian Cook and Li Wei in their edited volume Contemporary Applied Linguistics (2009), and part of Section 1.3 taken from the chapter Doing Applied Linguistics, in Li Wei’s The Routledge Applied Linguistics Reader (2011: 497–514), co-authored with Zhu Hua. The contributions of Vivian Cook and Zhu Hua are gratefully acknowledged.

The Resources List is based on the list in Li Wei’s The Routledge Applied Linguistics Reader (2011: 515–526), updated by Zhu Hua.

Copyright permission for the two figures in Chapter 4 is as follows:

The Cookie Theft picture, from Goodglass, Harold and Edith Kaplan. 1983. The Assessment of Aphasia and Related Disorders. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger. Permission granted by Pro-Ed, Inc., Texas.

Examples of paraphasias in deaf left-hemisphere damaged (LHD) signers, from Hickok, Gregory, Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima. 1998. The neural organization of language: Evidence from sign language aphasia. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2 (4), 129–136. Permission granted by Elsevier.

Permission to reproduce the image in Chapter 8, ‘Sri Lankan Brit shows true grit’ by Carole Malone, News of the World, 22 March 2009, granted by The Newspaper Marketing Agency, www.nmauk.co.uk.