Appliable Linguistics

Ahmar Mahboob, Naomi K. Knight, Ahmar Mahboob, Naomi K. Knight

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9781441108326
• eBook ISBN: 9781441176189
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistic Semantics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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.

Table of contents

• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Notes on the Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1 Appliable Linguistics: An Introduction
• Chapter 2 Pinpointing the Choice: Meaning and the Search for Equivalents in a Translated Text
• Chapter 3 Appliable Linguistics and English Language Teaching: The Scaffolding Literacy in Adult and Tertiary Environments (SLATE) Project
• Chapter 4 Negotiating Evaluation: Story Structure and Appraisal in Youth Justice Conferencing
• Chapter 5 Modelling Social Affiliation and Genre in the Civic Domain
• Chapter 6 ‘News’ and ‘Register’: A Preliminary Investigation
• Chapter 7 Constructing Sports Stars: Appliable Linguistics and the Language of the Media
• Chapter 8 Naming Culture in Convivial Conversational Humour
• Chapter 9 Visualizing Appraisal Prosody
• Chapter 10 Evaluative Stance in Humanities: Expectations and Performances
• Chapter 11 The 3×3: Setting Up a Linguistic Toolkit for Teaching Academic Writing
• Chapter 12 Why Are Logical Connectives Sometimes Detrimental to Coherence?
• Chapter 13 Contestable Reality: A Multi-level View on Modality in Multimodal Pedagogic Context
• Chapter 14 Making Many Meanings in Popular Rap Music
• Chapter 15 Rank in Visual Grammar: Some Implications for Multimodal Discourse Analysis
• Chapter 16 The Meaning of ‘Not’ Is Not in ‘Not’
• Index