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Directions in Applied Linguistics: Essays in Honor of Robert B. Kaplanreviewed by Christine Epting - January 25, 2006 Title: Directions in Applied Linguistics: Essays in Honor of Robert B. Kaplan Author(s): Paul Bruthiaux, Dwight Atkinson, William G. Eggington, William Grabe, & Vaidehi Ramanathan (Eds.)
Publisher: Multilingual Matters, Clevedon ISBN: 185359850X , Pages: 327, Year: 2005 Search for book at Amazon.com Defining the field of applied linguistics seems simple enough by looking at its name: Whatever linguistics is, applied linguistics must be the application of the theories of that field. Unfortunately, it is not that simple. Applied linguistics as a field of inquiry is diverse and varied. In truth, it seems sometimes that we define ourselves by what we are not, rather than by a common methodology or focus of inquiry. Applied linguists employ qualitative and quantitative research designs, some leaning more toward applied and some more toward linguistic. There is no one method of research and our common interestlanguageis so broad as to be unhelpful in defining the scope of our inquiry.
With the field as it is, choosing the topics for a single book about the direction of applied linguistics could be like throwing darts and writing about whatever we randomly hit. The choice of the sections of Directions... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Christine Epting
Teachers College, Columbia University E-mail Author CHRISTINE EPTING is a doctoral student in Applied Linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests include classroom discourse, language socialization, and the acquisition of pragmatics. She has most recently contributed to The Forum in Vol. 5, No. 2, of Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, offering a conversational analytic reading of the transcript under review. Christine is currently working on a paper about framing in family discourse.
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