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Spilt into two volumes, this new edition includes 27 new chapters and covers a wide range of topics, Volume 1 is organised into two sections: Language Learning and Education and Key Areas and Approaches in Applied Linguistics and Volume 2 also two sections: Applied Linguistics in Society and Broadening Horizons.
List of contents
Introduction: Applied linguistics in the contemporary world -- Li Wei, Zhu Hua and James Simpson
PART I Applied linguistics in society1. Multilingualism -- Jasone Cenoz and Durk Gorter
2. Language and migration -- Mike Baynham and James Simpson
3. Language policy and planning -- Lionel Wee
4. Family language policy - Kendall A. King
5. Critical discourse analysis, critical discourse studies, and critical applied linguistics- Karin Zotzmann and John P. O'Regan
6. Digital language and communication - Caroline Tagg
7. Intercultural communication - Zhu Hua
8. Institutional discourse -Zsófia Demjén and Miguel Pérez-Milans
9. Medical communication -- Sarah Collins, Sarah Peters and Ian Watt
10. English for professional communication: A critical genre analytical perspective -- Vijay K. Bhatia and Aditi Bhatia
11. Identity -- Bonny Norton and Monica Shank Lauwo
12. Gender and sexuality - Helen Sauntson
13. Language and race - Jennifer B. Delfino and H. Samy Alim
14. Politics and applied linguistics - Philip Seargeant
15. World Englishes and English as a lingua franca -- Andy Kirkpatrick and David Deterding
PART II Broadening Horizons16. Sign languages -- Bencie Woll and Rachel Sutton-Spence
17. Lexicography -- Thierry Fontenelle
18. Translation and interpreting -- Mona Baker and Luis Pérez-González
19. First language attrition: bridging sociolinguistic narratives and psycholinguistic models of attrition - Beatriz Duarte Wirth, Anita Auer and Merel Keijzer
20. Clinical linguistics - Vesna Stojanovik, Michael Perkins and Sara Howard
21. Language and ageing - Lihe Huang
22. Forensic linguistics - Tim Grant and Tahmineh Tayebi
23. Linguistic ethnography -- Karin Tusting
24. Posthumanism and applied linguistics - Kelleen Toohey
25. Social semiotics and multimodality -- Theo van Leeuwen
26. Linguistic landscapes - Robert Blackwood and Will Amos
27. Minoritised/Indigenous language revitalization - Nancy H. Hornberger and Haley De Korne
28. Endangered languages - Julia Sallabank and Peter K. Austin
29. Ecolinguistics in practice -- Stephen Cowley
30. Translanguaging -- Li Wei
About the author
Li Wei is Director and Dean of the UCL Institute of Education at University College London, UK, where he is also Chair of Applied Linguistics. He is Editor of
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism and
Applied Linguistics Review. He is Fellow of the British Academy, Academia Europaea, Academy of Social Sciences (UK), and Royal Society of Arts (UK).
Zhu Hua is Professor of Language Learning and Intercultural Communication and Director of the International Centre for Intercultural Studies at University College London, UK. She is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK) and an elected Fellow and board member of the International Academy for Intercultural Research. She is Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL), 2021-2024.
James Simpson is Professor in the Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the Director of the MA programme in International Language Education. He was formerly in the School of Education, University of Leeds, UK.
