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Topics in Applied Linguistics

Definition of Applied Linguistics: 1. Applied linguistics is an umbrella term that covers a wide set of numerous areas of study connected by the focus on the language that is actually used. The emphasis in applied linguistics is on language users and the ways in which they use languages, contrary to theoretical linguistics which studies the language in the abstract not referring it to any particular context, or language, like Chomskyan generative grammar for example. Source: Brown K. (Editor) 2005. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier. Website: http://www.tlumaczenia-angielski.info/linguistics/applied-linguistics.htm (accessed on Wednesday, March 6th 2013 on 01.25 pm) 2. Applied Linguistics is the study of language in order to address real -world concerns. Another is that it is the study of language, and language-related topics, in specified situations. The real-world concerns include language learning and teaching but also other issues such as professional communication, literacy, translation practices, language and legal or health issues, and many more. Applied linguistics is practically-oriented, but it is also theory driven and interdisciplinary. Models of how languages are learned and stored, for example, are applied linguistics, as are descriptions of individual language varieties that prioritize actual and contextualized language use. (Hunston;2009) Source: Susan Hunston.2009.What is Applied Linguistics?

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Wednesday, March 6th 2013 on 01.35 pm) 3. "[A]pplied linguistics is an area of work that deals with language use in professional settings, translation, speech pathology, literacy, and language education; and it is not merely the application of linguistic knowledge to such settings but is a semiautonomous and interdisciplinary . . . domain of work that draws on but is not dependent on areas such as sociology, education, anthropology, cultural studies, and psychology." (Alastair Pennycook, Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction. Routledge, 2001) Website: http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/appliedlinguisticsterm.htm (accessed on Wednesday, March 6th 2013 on 01.30 pm) 4. Applied linguistics is generally understood as dealing with real world problems in which language and communication are an issue. (Knapp, 2013, 1) Source: Knapp, Karlfried. 2013. European Journal of Applied Linguistics. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 5. Applied Linguistics (AL) provides the theoretical and descriptive foundations for the investigation and solution of language-related problems, especially those of language education (first-language, second-language and foreign-language teaching and learning), but also problems of translation and interpretation, lexicography, forensic linguistics and (perhaps) clinical linguistics. (Hudson;1999) Source: Dick Hudson.1999. Applied Linguistics.

Website: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/AL.html (accessed on Wednesday, March 6th 2013 on 02.05pm) Based on the definitions above, we can conclude that applied linguistics is the study of language concerned on the real world problems of language and the solutions. The Scope of Applied Linguistics:

a. Language and Teaching This scope covers methods of language teaching. In doing teaching learning activity, linguistic is applied on those methods. b. Language and Society The branch in this scope is called sociolinguistics. Sociolinguistic studies about the relationship between the society and language, and explore/solve the problem related to society that affects the language, varieties of language in society, terms of taboos and euphemism, etc. c. Language Education/Learning This scope tries to explain about the first language education, additional language education such as second language education and foreign language education. It also help us to know about clinical linguistic and language testing. Clinical linguistic is the study about language disability. d. Language, Work and Law The scope of Language, Work and Law explain about communication in the workplace, language planning, and forensic linguistic. e. Language, Information, and Effect

It studies the literary stylistics, critical discourse analysis, translation and interpretation, information design, and lexicography.

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