The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics serves as an introduction and reference point to key areas in the field of applied linguistics.
The five sections of the volume encompass a wide range of topics from a variety of perspectives:


applied linguistics in action
language learning, language education
language, culture and identity
perspectives on language in use
descriptions of language for applied linguistics.

The forty-seven chapters connect knowledge about language to decision-making in the real world. The volume as a whole highlights the role of applied linguistics, which is to make insights drawn from language study relevant to such decision-making.
The chapters are written by specialists from around the world. Each one provides an overview of the history of the topic, the main current issues and possible future trajectory. Where appropriate, authors discuss the impact and use of new technology in the area. Suggestions for further reading are provided with every chapter. The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics is an essential purchase for postgraduate students of applied linguistics.

James Simpson is a senior lecturer in the School of Education, University of Leeds.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Applied linguistics in the contemporary world
James Simpson
Section 1. Applied linguistics in action
Language policy and planning
Lionel Wee
Business communication
Vijay Bhatia and Aditi Bhatia
Translation and interpreting
Mona Baker and Luis Pérez-González
Lexicography
Thierry Fontenelle
The media
Anne O’Keeffe
Institutional discourse
Celia Roberts
Medical communication
Sarah Collins, Sarah Peters and Ian Watt
Clinical linguistics
Michael Perkins and Sara Howard
Language and ageing
Kees de Bot and Nienke van der Hoeven
Forensic linguistics
Frances Rock
Section 2. Language learning, language education
Key concepts in language learning and language education
Diane Larsen-Freeman
Second language acquisition
Lourdes Ortega
Language teaching methodology
Scott Thornbury
Technology and language learning
Richard Kern
Language teacher education
Simon Borg
Bilingual education
Ingrid Gogolin
English for academic purposes
Nigel Harwood and Bojana Petrić
Language testing
Barry O’Sullivan
Classroom discourse
Amy Tsui
Language socialisation
Agnes He
Section 3. Language, culture and identity
Culture
Claire Kramsch
Identity
Bonny Norton
Gender
Judith Baxter
Ethnicity
Roxy Harris
Sign languages
Bencie Woll and Rachel Sutton-Spence
World Englishes
Andy Kirkpatrick and David Deterding
Linguistic imperialism
Suresh Canagarajah and Selim Ben Said
Multilingualism
Jasone Cenoz and Durk Gorter
Language and migration
Mike Baynham
Section 4. Perspectives on language in use
Discourse analysis
Guy Cook
Critical discourse analysis
Kieran O’Halloran
Neurolinguistics
Elisabeth Ahlsén
Psycholinguistics
John Field
Sociocultural and cultural-historical theories of language development
Steven L. Thorne and Thomas Tasker
Sociolinguistics
Carmen Llamas
Linguistic ethnography
Janet Maybin and Karin Tusting
Literacy
Doris S. Warriner
Stylistics
Elena Semino
Section 5. Descriptions of language for applied linguistics
Grammar
Michael Swan
Lexis
Joe Barcroft, Norbert Schmitt and Gretchen Sunderman
Phonetics and phonology
Helen Fraser
Corpus linguistics
Svenja Adolphs and Phoebe Lin
Cognitive linguistics
Hans-Jörg Schmid and Friedrich Ungerer
Systemic functional linguistics
Lynne Young
Generative grammar
Shigenori Wakabayashi
The emergence of language as a complex adaptive system
Nick C. Ellis
Multimodality
Theo van Leeuwen
Index