Illustrating how linguistic theory effects change in the "real world", this text demonstrates the applications of linguistic theory in law, medicine, business, education, social policy, translation, literary analysis and other fields. The book is divided into nine chapters with four to six readings, each covering examples of applications of linguistic knowledge and theories. Two contents lists are provided, the first according to application and the second according to the type of linguistic knowledge being applied. There are discussion questions at the end of each chapter.
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Finally, a great compilation of good linguistic papers!,
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This review is from: Linguistics at Work: A Reader of Applications (Paperback)
In spite of being a neuroscientist and in science education, I got asked a question concerning science, medicine, Ebonics, and American Sign Language in my preliminary exam. It was a complete surprise to me to get asked something which was not my field, but the committee assumed I would know all about because I am Deaf! Anyway, I got ahold of this great book. It was a textbook in the University of Pittsburgh bookstore, but wasn't recommended for any of the classes I had taken. It was used for linguistic classes and audiological classes, and came highly recommended. This book literally saved my bacon. Not only were three articles in it exactly what my committee had talked about, but Dr. Oaks gave references with the articles and arranged them in such a way as to be very accessible. He managed to find important articles from diverse sources (the one on ASL was from the Smithsonian magazine which I already had and which has been one of the better articles written for the layman about ASL over the last few years). I am holding onto this book and recommending it to some of my education teachers to use in their classes. I know I will be using it in mine, and quoting from it for years to come. Thank you Dr. Oaks, for such a well-done textbook (which is hard to find in college!) Karen Sadler, Science education, University of Pittsburgh, klsst23@pitt.edu
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Great for showing application of linguistic knowledge,
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This review is from: Linguistics at Work: A Reader of Applications (Paperback)
This is an awesome book! As a linguist people are always asking me classic questions like "how many languages do you speak?" and "So you're going to teach, right?". This book does a great job of showing how linguistic knowledge can be applied to many different fields. It basically explains to be WHY they should care about linguistics at all. Highly recommended!
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