The Handbook of Applied Linguistics: (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics)

Table of Contents:
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 Learning 525 Rod Ellis 22 Social Influences on Language Learning 552 Gary Barkhuizen 23 Literacy Studies 576 Eddie Williams Section 9 24 Fashions in Language Teaching Methodology 604 Bob Adamson 25 Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) 623 Paul Gruba 26 Language Teacher Education 649 Richard Johnstone 27 The Practice of LSP 672 Helen Basturkmen and Catherine Elder 28 Bilingual Education 695 Heather Lotherington Section 10 29 Language Maintenance 719 Anne Pauwels 30 Language Planning as Applied Linguistics 738 Joseph Lo Bianco 31 Language Testing 763 Tim McNamara Section 11 32 Critical Applied Linguistics 784 Alastair Pennycook Index 808

About the Author :
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).

Review :
“Handsomely produced, and very attractive visually. The editors, Alan Davies and Catherine Elder, are leading experts in applied linguistics and they have assembled a strong group of contributors to the enterprise… The Handbook of Applied Linguistics should be in every academic library, and I would recommend that applied linguists look at it, note specific chapters of interest, and read over those chapters carefully… Because of the depth allowed for each chapter, there is much thought-provoking material and many ideas that may challenge as well as support established positions.” Language Teaching Research “In the vast quarry of theories and interdisciplinary investigations of applied linguistics this rigorous and scholarly book is an authoritative guide to the focal issues. It provides both original and important contributions to the literature as well as signposts to the future.” John C. Maher, International Christian University, Tokyo “In its forty years of activity, applied linguistics has been concerned to define itself, its extent, and its relations with related fields. This handbook, edited by Davies and Catherine Elder, brings the issues up-to-date, providing not just a clear account of current work in the branches of the field by thirty of the best-known practitioners, but a cogent perspective justifying treating applied linguistics as an independent and united discipline.” Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University “This is a linguistically sophisticated, pedagogically sound, research oriented, interdisciplinary approach at defining applied linguistics as a discipline in its own right that should be in every applied linguist's library. A vade mecum.” James E. Alatis, Georgetown University “Davies and Elder are to be congratulated for the Handbook in Applied Linguistics. The handbook reflects the historical evolution of thinking in applied linguistics, its emerging dimensions, and successfully captures the nature of an internal critique of applied linguistics within applied linguistics. Because applied linguistics is firmly embedded within western applied linguistics, the handbook book forces us to reflect on the nature non-western applied linguistics might take.” Sinfree Makoni, Pennsylvania State University