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Handbook of Applied Linguistics (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics) [Hardcover]

Alan Davies (Editor), Catherine Elder (Editor)


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0631228993 978-0631228998 February 23, 2004 1
The Handbook of Applied Linguistics is a collection of newly commissioned articles that provide a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the field of Applied Linguistics.

  • Provides a comprehensive and current picture of the field of Applied Linguistics.
  • Contains 32 newly commissioned articles that examine both the applications of linguistics to language data and the use of real world language to ameliorate social problems.
  • Valuable resource for students and researchers in applied linguistics, language teaching, and second language acquisition.
  • Presents applied linguistics as an independent discipline that unifies practical experience and theoretical understanding of language development and language in use.


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“Handsomely produced, and very attractive visually. The editors, Alan Davies and Catherine Elder, are leading experts in applied linguistics and they have assembled a strong group of contributors to the enterprise… The Handbook of Applied Linguistics should be in every academic library, and I would recommend that applied linguists look at it, note specific chapters of interest, and read over those chapters carefully… Because of the depth allowed for each chapter, there is much thought-provoking material and many ideas that may challenge as well as support established positions.” Language Teaching Research

“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

Book Description

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.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 866 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (February 23, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0631228993
  • ISBN-13: 978-0631228998
  • Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.8 x 2.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,407,891 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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We have argued in our general introduction that while the distinction between Linguistics Applied (L-A) and Applied Linguistics (A-L) is fugitive, it remains necessary and that it is at its most obvious in the orientation of the researchers, why they are investigating a problem and collecting their data. Read the first page
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critical applied linguistics, pedagogical lexicography, first language attrition, minority language situations, sign language poetry, monolingual control group, applied linguistics research, group vilification, language relativity, deaf staff, many applied linguists, language teacher education, learner cognitions, language aptitude, genre pedagogy, assisted lan, autonomous literacy, language testers, reversing language shift, attritional process, applied linguistic theory, language teaching methodology, second language acquisition theory, attrition studies, classroom anxiety
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New York, Multilingual Matters, Newbury House, United States, Hong Kong, Lawrence Erlbaum, New Zealand, South Africa, Edward Arnold, American English, University of Chicago Press, The Hague, Harvard University Press, Edinburgh University Press, British English, North America, Max Niemeyer, Mouton de Gruyter, Norton Peirce, Cape Town, Englewood Cliffs, Georgetown University Press, Kegan Paul, Language Australia, New Delhi
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