Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics

Written and edited by the world’s leading specialists, this compact reference work systematically describes all aspects of applied linguistics.

Margie Berns (Edited by)

9780080965024, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 14 November 2009

571 pages
27.9 x 21 x 3.2 cm, 1.81 kg

Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics formalizes, organizes and analyzes the relation of knowledge about language to decision-making in practice. It synthesizes research in psycholinguistics, educational linguistics and sociolinguistics, freely crossing subject fields to establish innovative and expert responses to some of the key debates in the field. Authored and compiled by leaders in their various specialties and collated and extensively re-edited from the award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition, this collection will be an ideal one-stop desk reference solution for any linguistics professional and researcher interested in how language operates at the leading edge.

Subject Areas: Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR], Reference works [GBC], Semantics, discourse analysis, etc [CFG], Sociolinguistics [CFB], Linguistics [CF]