tailieunhanh - Ebook An Introduction to Applied Linguistics (From practice to theory): Part 2

Part 2 of ebook "An Introduction to Applied Linguistics" provides to reader contents as: Applied linguistics and language use, the professionalising of applied linguists, applied linguistics: no ‘bookish theoric’, the applied linguistics challenge. Inviting you to refer. | Chapter 5 Applied linguistics and language use Language is only the instrument of science and words are but the signs of ideas. Samuel Johnson Preface to the Dictionary of the English Language 1755 1 INTRODUCTION This chapter is parallel to Chapter 4 where we examined the role of applied linguistics in language teaching and learning. We move on in Chapter 5 to survey areas outside institutional language learning correctness forensic linguistics applied stylistics lexicography and artificial languages or language treatment . The role of applied linguistics is to recognise that these problems often cause deep passions and may need to be viewed as issues in which language plays only a part. The examples chosen for discussion are language correctness because of public fear and outrage at what is perceived to be a decline in standards forensic linguistics in order to determine the authenticity of oral and written texts for both defence and prosecution purposes applied stylistics on the grounds of the need to teach literature to foreign learners lexicography which determines what to include and what to exclude in dictionaries for home and school and language treatment the creation of artificial languages because of the central interest there in communication across frontiers. As in Chapter 4 we propose here that the chief role of applied linguistics is to ask the right questions about the context in which a language problem is embedded and then to generalise to other contexts where the same problem can be shown after analysis to exist. In that way a systematic approach to language problems can be made which will both explain and at the same time provide a set of options for action. 2 PROBLEMS Language matters so much in our everyday thinking our learning outside school our communicating with one another that it inevitably arouses passions and creates problems. Applied linguistics exists to try to explain the passions and suggest solutions to the problems. To some extent