Appliable linguistics
Subtitle: reclaiming the place of language in linguistics
By: edited by Ahmar Mahboob and Naomi Knight.
Contributors: Mahboob, Ahmar.; Knight, Naomi.
Publisher: Continuum Logo; Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781441164155
Subjects: Applied linguistics; Sociolinguistics
Description: This collection of research offers an initial step in the pursuit of an appliable linguistics. Appliable Linguistics takes everyday real-life language-related problems - both theoretical and practical - in diverse social, professional and academic contexts as its starting point. It then uses and contributes to a theoretical model of language that can respond to and is appliable in the context. The concept of appliable linguistics used in this volume is informed by the work of M.A.K. Halliday, who believes that "the value of a theory lies in the use that can be made of it." The chapters in this volume thus use and contribute to an appliable linguistics that engages with a range of issues including: translation, education, language teaching/learning, multimodality, media, social policy and action, and positive discourse analysis. This collection of research is offered as an initial step in the pursuit of Appliable Linguistics, which we hope will serve as a foundation for future work across the discipline.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Appliable linguistics: an introduction / Ahmar Mahboob & Naomi Knight; title: 2. Pinpointing the Choice: Meaning and The Search For Equivalents in a Translated Text / M A K Halliday; title: 3. Appliable Linguistics and English Language Teaching: the Scaffolding Literacy in Adult and Tertiary Environments (SLATE) project / Ahmar Mahboob, Shoshana Dreyfus, Sally Humphrey & J R Martin; title: 4. Negotiating evaluation: story structure and appraisal in youth justice conferencing / J R Martin, Michele Zappavigna & Paul Dwyer; title: 5. Modelling Social Affiliation and genre in the Civic Domain / Sally Humphrey; title: 6. News and register: a preliminary investigation / Annabelle Lukin; title: 7. Constructing Sports Stars: Appliable Linguistics and the Language of the Media / Shoshana Dreyfus & Sandra C. Jones; title: 8. Naming culture in convivial conversational humour / Naomi K. Knight; title: 9. Visualizing Appraisal Prosody / Michele Zappavigna, Chris Cléirigh, Paul Dwyer & JR Martin; title: 10. Evaluative Stance in Humanities: expectations and performances / Erika Matruglio; title: 11. The 3x3: Setting up a linguistic toolkit for teaching academic writing / Sally Humphrey, J R Martin, Shooshi Dreyfus and Ahmar Mahboob; title: 12. Why are logical connectives sometimes detrimental to coherence? / Alan Jones; title: 13. Contestable Reality: A Multi-level View on Modality in Multimodal Pedagogic Context / Yumin Chen; title: 14. Making Many Meanings in Popular Rap Music / David Caldwell; title: 15. Rank in visual grammar: Some implications for Multimodal Discourse Analysis / Sumin Zhao; title: 16. The meaning of not is not in not / Ruqaiya Hasan; title: Index.