TopicsinAppliedLinguistic

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Denition
Therearevariousdenitionsofappliedlinguisticsbasedonsomelinguists.Thefollowingsaresome
ofthem:
a.AccordingtoCorder(1973):
Theapplicationoflinguisticknowledgetosomeobjectorappliedlinguistics,asitsnameimplies
isanactivity.Itisnotatheoreticalstudy.Itmakesuseofthendingsoftheoreticalstudies.The
appliedlinguistisaconsumeroruser,notaproduceroftheories.
b.AccordingtoCook(2003):
AppliedLinguisticisastudywhichthetaskistomediatebetweenlinguisticsandlanguageuse.
c.AccordingtoSpolsky(2005):
AppliedLinguisticsisacovertermforasizeablegroupofsemiautonomousdisciplines,each
dividingitsparentageandallegiancesbetweentheformalstudyoflanguageandotherrelevant
elds,andeachworkingtodevelopitsownmethodologiesandprinciples.
d.AccordingtoSchmit&CelceMurcia(2002)
AppliedLinguisticsisusingwhatweknowabout(a)language,(b)howitislearned,and(c)howitis
used,inordertoachievesomepurposeorsolvesomeproblemintherealworld(Schmit&Celce
Murcia,2002,p.1).
e.AccordingtoDawnKnight(2009)
Appliedlinguisticsisadisciplinewhichexplorestherelationsbetweentheoryandpracticein
languagewithparticularreferencetoissuesoflanguageuse.Itembracescontextsinwhichpeople
useandlearnlanguagesandisaplatformforsystematicallyaddressingproblemsinvolvingtheuse
oflanguageandcommunicationinrealworldsituations.Appliedlinguisticsdrawsonarangeof
disciplines,includinglinguistics.Inconsequence,appliedlinguisticshasapplicationsinseveralareas
oflanguagestudy,includinglanguagelearningandteaching,thepsychologyoflanguageprocessing,
discourseanalysis,stylistics,corpusanalysis,literacystudiesandlanguageplanningandpolicies.
DawnKnight.2009.WhatisAppliedLinguistic.Retrievedfromhtp://www.scribd.com/doc/16212220
/WhatisAppliedLinguistics(htp://www.scribd.com/doc/16212220/WhatisAppliedLinguistics)
f.AccordingtoG.RichardTucker
Thetermappliedlinguisticsreferstoabroadrangeofactivitieswhichinvolvesolvingsome
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languagerelatedproblemoraddressingsomelanguagerelatedconcern.
G.RichardTucker.(n.d).AppliedLinguistic.Retrievedfromhtp://lsadc.org/info/lingelds
applied.cfm(htp://lsadc.org/info/lingeldsapplied.cfm)
g.AccordingtoSusanHunston(2009)
Oneanswertothisquestionisthatitisthestudyoflanguageinordertoaddressrealworld
concerns.Anotheristhatitisthestudyoflanguage,andlanguagerelatedtopics,inspecied
situations.Therealworldconcernsincludelanguagelearningandteachingbutalsootherissuessuch
asprofessionalcommunication,literacies,translationpractices,languageandlegalorhealthissues,
andmanymore.Appliedlinguisticsispracticallyoriented,butitisalsotheorydrivenand
interdisciplinary.Modelsofhowlanguagesarelearnedandstored,forexample,areapplied
linguistics,asaredescriptionsofindividuallanguagevarietiesthatprioritizeactualand
contextualizedlanguageuse.
SusanHunston.2009.WhatisAppliedLingustic?Retrievedfromhtp://www.scribd.com/doc/16212220
/WhatisAppliedLinguistics
Fromthedenitionsabove,Icanconcludethatappliedlinguisticisastudyoflanguagethatisused
tosolvemanyproblemsrelatedtolanguageinmanycases.
TheScopeofAppliedLinguistics
a.AccordingtoMoutondeGruyter,thescopeofappliedlinguisticsincludes:
LanguageAcquisition(L1andL2),Psycho/Neurolinguistics,LanguageTeaching,Sociolinguistics,
HumorStudies,Pragmatics,DiscourseAnalysis/Rhetorics,Text/Processing/Translation,
ComputationalLinguisticsMachineTranslation,CorpusLinguistics,Language
Control/Dialectology.
b.AccordingtotheInternationalAssociationofAppliedLinguistics,thescopeofappliedlinguistics
includes:
AdultLanguageLearning,ChildLanguage,CommunicationintheProfessions,Contrastive
LinguisticsandErrorAnalysis,DiscourseAnalysis,EducationalTechnologyandLanguageLearning,
ForeignLanguageTeachingMethodologyandTeacherEducation,ForensicLinguistics,Immersion
Education,InterpretingandTranslating,LanguageandEcology,LanguageandEducationin
MultilingualSetings,LanguageandGender,LanguageandtheMedia,LanguageContactand
LanguageChange,LanguageforSpecialPurposes,LanguagePlanning,LearnerAutonomyin
LanguageLearning,LexicographyandLexicology,Literacy,MotherTongueEducation,
Psycholinguistics,RhetoricandStylistics,SecondLanguageAcquisition,SignLanguage.
References:
Davies,A.2007.AnIntroductiontoAppliedLinguistics.FromPracticetoTheory.Edinburgh:
EdinburghUniversityPress.
Seidlhofer,B.2003.ControversiesinAppliedLinguistics.UnitedKingdom:OXFORDUniversity
Press.
Schmit,N.&CelceMurcia,M.(2002)Anoverviewofappliedlinguistics.InN.Schmit(ed.),An
introductiontoappliedlinguistics(pp.116).London:Arnold.
DawnKnight.2009.WhatisAppliedLinguistic.Retrievedfromhtp://www.scribd.com/doc/16212220
/WhatisAppliedLinguistics(htp://www.scribd.com/doc/16212220/WhatisAppliedLinguistics)
G.RichardTucker.(n.d).AppliedLinguistic.Retrievedfromhtp://lsadc.org/info/lingelds
applied.cfm(htp://lsadc.org/info/lingeldsapplied.cfm)
SusanHunston.2009.WhatisAppliedLingustic?Retrievedfromhtp://www.scribd.com
/doc/16212220/WhatisAppliedLinguistics
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