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Informationen zum Autor Alan Davies is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include Principles of Language Testing (1990), An Introduction to Applied Linguistics (1999), and The Native Speaker: Myth and Reality (2003). Catherine Elder is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the author, with Alan Davies et al., of the Dictionary of Language Testing (1999) and co-editor of Experimenting with Uncertainty (2001). Klappentext The Handbook of Applied Linguistics is a collection of over 30 original 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 to real world language data with the purpose of further understanding language and evaluating linguistic theory; and the problem-based approach 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. Zusammenfassung * 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures viii List of Tables ix Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xvi General Introduction Applied Linguistics: Subject to Discipline? 1 Alan Davies and Catherine Elder Part I Linguistics-Applied (L-A) 17 Introduction to Part I 19 Alan Davies Section 1 1 Language Descriptions 25 Anthony J. Liddicoat and Timothy J. Curnow 2 Lexicography 54 Alan Kirkness Section 2 3 Second Language Acquisition and Ultimate Attainment 82 David Birdsong 4 Language Corpora 106 Michael Stubbs 5 Discourse Analysis 133 Hugh Trappes-Lomax Section 3 6 British Sign Language 165 Rachel Sutton-Spence and Bencie Woll 7 Assessing Language Attitudes: Speaker Evaluation Studies 187 Howard Giles and Andrew C. Billings 8 Language Attrition 210 Monika S. Schmid and Kees de Bot 9 Language, Thought, and Culture 235 Claire Kramsch 10 Conversation Analysis 262 Rod Gardner Section 4 11 Language and the Law 285 John Gibbons 12 Language and Gender 304 Susan Ehrlich 13 Stylistics 328 John McRae and Urszula Clark Section 5 14 Language and Politics 347 John E. Joseph 15 World Englishes 367 Kingsley Bolton Section 6 16 The Philosophy of Applied Linguistics 397 Kanavillil Rajagopalan Part II Applied-Linguistics (A-L) 421 Introduction to Part II 423 Catherine Elder Section 7 17 The Native Speaker in Applied Linguistics 431 Alan Davies 18 Language Minorities 451 John Edwards 19 Research Methods for Applied Linguistics: Scope, Characteristics, and Standards 476 James Dean Brown Section 8 20 Second Language Learning 501 William Littlewood 21 Individual Differences in Second Language Learnin...
