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Title Appliable linguistics / edited by Ahmar Mahboob and Naomi K. Knight
Published London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 313 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. Appliable linguistics: an introduction / Ahmar Mahboob and Naomi K. Knight -- 2. Pinpointing the choice: meaning and the search for equivalents in a translated text / M.A.K. Halliday -- 3. Appliable linguistics and English language teaching: the scaffolding literacy in adult and tertiary environments (SLATE) project / Ahmar Mahboob, Shoshana Dreyfus, Sally Humphrey and J.R. Martin -- 4. Negotiating evaluation: story structure and appraisal in youth justice conferencing / J.R. Martin, Michele Zappavigna and Paul Dwyer -- 5. Modelling social affiliation and genre in the civic domain / Sally Humphrey -- 6. 'News' and 'register': a preliminary investigation / Annabelle Lukin -- 7. Constructing sports stars: appliable linguistics and the language of the media / Shoshana Dreyfus and Sandra C. Jones -- 8. Naming culture in convivial conversational humour / Naomi K. Knight -- 9. Visualizing appraisal prosody / Michele Zappavigna, Chris Cléirigh, Paul Dwyer and J.R. Martin -- 10. Evaluative stance in humanities: expectations and performances / Erika Matruglio -- 11. The 3x3: setting up a linguistic toolkit for teaching academic writing / Sally Humphrey, J.R. Martin, Shooshi Dreyfus and Ahmar Mahboob -- 12. Why are logical connectives sometimes detrimental to coherence? / Alan Jones -- 13. Contestable reality: a multi-level view on modality in multimodal pedagogic context / Yumin Chen -- 14. Making many meanings in popular rap music / David Caldwell -- 15. Rank in visual grammar: some implications for multimodal discourse analysis / Sumin Zhao -- 16. The meaning of 'not' is not in 'not' / Ruqaiya Hasan
Summary 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 v
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Applied linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
applied linguistics.
sociolinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Multi-Language Phrasebooks.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Readers.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling.
Applied linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Angewandte Linguistik
Form Electronic book
Author Mahboob, Ahmar
Knight, Naomi
ISBN 9781441176189
1441176187
128320715X
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9781474211758
1474211755
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9786613207159
6613207152