Applied Linguistics as Social Science

Applied Linguistics as Social Science surveys the increasing dialogue between linguistics and social theory. The book shows how social theory, applied linguistics and sociolinguistics share a set of common concerns, and how an analysis of these to produce a social scientific account of applied linguistics helps to explain the interaction between social structures, human agents and language. Foreword . Introduction . Making connections: some key issues in social theory and applied linguistics . Sociology and ideas about language . Language as a cultural emergent property . Researching language learning: theories, evidence, claims . Social categories and theoretical descriptions . Social domain theory: interpreting intercultural communication . Language in the world: properties and powers . A social realist approach to research in applied linguistics

About the author

Alison Sealey is Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK.Bob Carter is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Warwick.

Product details

• Authors: Bob Carter, Alison Sealey, Alison Carter Sealey
• Assisted by: Christopher Candlin (Editor), Bob Carter (Editor), Alison Sealey (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2004
• EAN: 9780826455208
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-5520-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Advances in Applied Linguistic; Advances in Applied Linguistic; Advances in Applied Linguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics