The Handbook of Applied Linguistics [Paperback]

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• 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.
  
• Valuable resource for students and researchers in applied linguistics, language teaching, and second language acquisition.
  
• Presents applied linguistics as an independent discipline that unifies practical experience and theoretical understanding of language development and language in use.

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 Trappeslch