Available in print and electronic formats.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics serves as an introduction and reference point to key areas in the field of applied linguistics. The five sections of the volume encompass a wide range of topics from a variety of perspectives: applied linguistics in action, language learning, language education, language, culture and identity, perspectives on language in use, descriptions of language for applied linguistics. The forty-seven chapters connect knowledge about language to decision-making in the real world. The volume as a whole highlights the role of applied linguistics, which is to make insights drawn from language study relevant to such decision-making. The chapters are written by specialists from around the world. Each one provides an overview of the history of the topic, the main current issues and possible future trajectory. Where appropriate, authors discuss the impact and use of new technology in the area. Suggestions for further reading are provided with every chapter. The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics is an essential purchase for postgraduate students of applied linguistics." (Book Cover)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

List of tables and figures

List of contributors

Aknowledgements

Introduction: Applied linguistics in the contemporary world / James Simpson

SECTION 1. APPLIED LINGUISTICS IN ACTION

1. Language policy and planning / Lionel Wee

2. Business communication / Vijay Bhatia and Aditi Bhatia

3. Translation and interpreting / Mona Baker and Luis Pérez Gonzalez

4. Lexicography / Thierry Fontenelle

5. The media / Anne O'Keeffe

6. Institutional discourse / Celia Roberts

7. Medical communication / Sarah Collins, Sarah Peters and Ian Watt

8. Clinical linguistics / Michael Perkins and Sara Howard

9. Language and ageing / Kees de Bot and Nienke van der Hoeven

10. Forensic linguistics / Frances Rock

SECTION 2. LANGUAGE LEARNING, LANGUAGE EDUCATION

11. Key concepts in language learning and language education / Diane Larsen-Freeman

12. Second language acquisition / Lourdes Ortega

13. Language teaching methodology / Scott Thornbury

14. Technology and language learning / Richard Kern

15. Language teacher education / Simon Borg

16. Bilingual education / Ingrid Gogolin

17. English for academic purposes / Nigel Harwood and Bojana Petric

18. Language testing / Barry O'Sullivan

19. Classroom discourse / Amy Tsui

20. Language socialisation / Agnes He

SECTION 3. LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND IDENTITY

21. Language and Culture / Claire Kramsch

22. Identity / Bonny Norton

23. Gender / Judith Baxter

24. Ethnicity / Roxy Harris

25. Sign languages / Bencie Woll and Rachel Sutton-Spence

26. World Englishes / Andy Kirkpatrick and David Deterding

27. Linguistic imperialism / Suresh Canagarajah and Selim Ben Said

28. Multilingualism / Jasone Cenoz and Durk Gorter

29. Language and migration / Mike Baynham

SECTION 4. PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE IN USE

30. Discourse analysis / Guy Cook

31. Critical discourse analysis / Kieran O'Halloran

32. Neurolinguistics / Elisabeth Ahlsén

33. Psycholinguistics / John Field

34. Sociocultural and cultural-historical theories of language development / Steven L. Thorne and Thomas Tasker

35. Sociolinguistics / Carmen Llamas

36. Linguistic ethnography / Janet Maybin and Karin Tusting

37. Literacy / Doris S. Warriner

38. Stylistics / Elena Semino

SECTION 5. DESCRIPTIONS OF LANGUAGE FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS

39. Grammar / Michael Swan

40. Lexis / Joe Barcroft, Norbert Schmitt, and Gretchen Sunderman

41. Phonetics and phonology / Helen Fraser

42. Corpus linguistics / Svenja Adolphs and Phoebe Lin

43. Cognitive linguistics / Hans-Jorg Schmid and Friedrich Ungerer

44. Systemic functional linguistics / Lynne Young

45. Generative grammar / Shigenori Wakabayashi

46. The emergence of language as a complex adaptive system / Nick C. Ellis

47. Multimodality / Theo van Leeuwen

Index