Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introducing Linguistics -- Title -- Copyright -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- chapter 1: Introducing Applied Linguistics -- 1.1 What is Language and What is Linguistics? -- 1.2 Applied Linguistics as a Problem-solving Approach -- 1.3 Doing Applied Linguistics: Methodological Considerations -- 1.4 Structure and Content of this Volume -- part I: Language in Development -- chapter 2: First Language Acquisition -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 What Are the Facts and Problems of First Language Acquisition? -- 2.3 How Do Adults Speak to Children and What Roles Does Input Play in Language Acquisition? -- 2.4 What Are the Special Features of Bilingual and Multilingual First Language Acquisition (BAMFLA)? -- 2.5 What do Cross-linguistic Studies Tell Us about First Language Acquisition? -- 2.6 What Is Language Socialization and What Is Its Impact on Language Acquisition and Learning? -- 2.7 Summary -- chapter 3: Second and Additional Language Acquisition -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 What Makes Somebody a 'Good Language Learner'? -- 3.3 Age Effects and the Critical Period Hypothesis -- 3.4 Previously Learned Languages -- 3.5 Instructional Environments and Authentic Use -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 3.7 Summary -- chapter 4: Language and the Brain -- 4.1 Introduction to Language Processing in the Brain -- 4.2 How Does Communicative Function Fractionate Through Selective Impairment? -- 4.3 How Does Language Interact with Other Cognitive Domains, Or is It Independent of Them? -- 4.4 What Effect Does Maturation Have on the Manifestations of Language Impairment? -- 4.5 What Can Be Learned about Language by Considering Impairments in Speech as Compared with Reading and Writing? -- 4.6 What Can Be Learned about Language by Considering Impairment in People with More Than One Language? -- 4.7 Summary -- part II: Language in Use.

chapter 5: Language in Interaction -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Language as Action and the Role of Context in the Interpretation of Meaning -- 5.3 Indirectness: Avoiding Saying Directly What You Mean -- 5.4 From Expressed to Implied Meanings -- 5.5 (Im)Politeness: Language Use in the Management of Rapport and Interpersonal Relationships -- 5.6 Language in Interaction: The Study of Conversation or Talk-in-Interaction -- 5.7 Summary -- chapter 6: Intercultural Communication -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 What is the Field of Intercultural Communication Concerned With? -- 6.3 What Are the Key Factors Behind Mis- or Non-understanding in Intercultural Communication? -- 6.4 What Are Culture-specific Ways of Communication? -- 6.5 What Does 'Interculturality' Mean in Multilingual and Multicultural Communicative Contexts? -- 6.6 How to Develop Intercultural Communicative Competence? -- 6.7 Summary -- chapter 7: Literacy and Multimodality -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Basic Components of Literacy -- 7.3 Literacy in Cross-modal Bilingual Contexts: Does Sign Language Competence Facilitate Deaf Children's Literacy Development? -- 7.4 Social Literacy and the Continua of Biliteracy -- 7.5 Multimodality -- 7.6 Summary -- part III: Language in Society -- chapter 8: Language Diversity and Contact -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Classifying Varieties -- 8.3 Choosing a Target Group and a Suitable Speech Sample -- 8.4 Language Change and Language Shift -- 8.5 Code-switching among Bilinguals -- 8.6 Powerful and Less Powerful Varieties -- 8.7 Conclusion -- 8.8 Summary -- chapter 9: Language, Identity and Power -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 What is (Linguistic) Identity? -- 9.3 Is 'Identity' Something We 'Have' or Something We 'Do'? -- 9.4 How Do We Construct and Negotiate Identity through Narrative? -- 9.5 How and Why are Boundaries Constructed?.

9.6 How are Identities Represented in and for the Media? -- 9.7 Summary -- chapter 10: Language Planning and Language Policy -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Domains of Language Planning - Where is it Needed? Why is it Needed? -- 10.3 What is Being Planned? Status and Corpus Planning -- 10.4 What are the Social Motivations for Language Planning and Language Policy? -- 10.5 Who Makes Language Policies and Who Makes Them Work? -- 10.6 What are the Consequences of Language Policy and Language Planning? -- 10.7 Summary -- part IV: Language in Public Life -- chapter 11: Language Assessment -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Varieties of Language Assessment -- 11.3 Key Concepts in Test Construction and Use -- 11.4 Socio-political Uses of Language Testing -- 11.5 The Consequences of Language Testing -- 11.6 Ethical Issues in Language Testing -- 11.7 Summary -- chapter 12: Language in Media, Health and Law -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 How Does Language Construct Events in the Media? -- 12.3 How are Health and Illness Constructed through Language? -- 12.4 What is the Relationship between Language and the Law? -- 12.5 Summary -- chapter 13: Translation and Interpreting -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 What is Translation? -- 13.3 What Happens in Translation? -- 13.4 Literal or Free? -- 13.5 What Happens in Subtitling? -- 13.6 What Happens in Interpreting? -- 13.7 Summary -- Glossary -- Resources List -- References -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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