Applied Linguistics

Sheila Choirul Istifa

2201409059

405-406

1st assignment of TOPICS in APPLIED LINGUISTICS

 

1. Definitions of Applied Linguistics

•  Applied linguistics is an area of work that deals with language use in professional settings, translation, speech pathology, literacy, and language education; and it is not merely the application of linguistic knowledge to such settings but is a semiautonomous and interdisciplinary . . . domain of work that draws on but is not dependent on areas such as sociology, education, anthropology, cultural studies, and psychology.”(Alastair Pennycook, Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction. Routledge, 2001) on http://www.about.com

•  Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field of research and practice dealing with practical problems of language and communication that can be identified, analysed or solved by applying available theories, methods or results of Linguisticsor by developing new theoretical and methodological frameworks in linguistics to work on these problems. (AILA International Association of Applied Linguistics)

•  Applied linguistics is an umbrella term that covers a wide set of numerous areas of study connected by the focus on the language that is actually used. The emphasis in applied linguistics is on language users and the ways in which they use languages, contrary to theoretical linguistics which studies the language in the abstract not referring it to any particular context, or language, like Chomskyan generative grammar for example. (Kamil Wiśniewski Aug 29th, 2007 on www.anlozof.com )

2. Similarities and differences of the definition

	DefinitionA (Alastair Pennycook )	Definition B ( AILA)	Definition C (Kamil Wisniewsky)
Similarities	Area work of language	Area work of language	Area work of language
Differences	deals with language use in professional settings, translation, speech pathology, literacy, and language education	deals with practical problems of language and communication that can be identified, analysed or solved by applying available theories, methods or results of Linguisticsor	the ways in which the language users  use languages, contrary to theoretical linguistics which studies the language in the abstract not referring it to any particular context, or language

3. The scope of Applied Linguistics

1.      Language and Education/Learning : it includes :
· First-language education : when child studied their home language
· Additional language education ( second language and foreign language)
· Clinical linguistic : the study of treatment of speech and communication impairments.
· Language testing : the assesment and evaluation of language achivement and proficiency.
2.      language, Work and Law  
it includes :
· workplace communication : the study of language is used in the workplace.
· Language planning : the making of decission.
·   Forensic linguistic : the deployment of language evidence in crimnal and other legal investigation.

2. Language, Information and Effect

it includes :

• literary stylistic : the study of the relationship between linguistic choices and  effects in literature.
• Critical discourse analysis : the study of the relationship between linguistic choices and  effects  in persuasive uses of language.
• Translation and intepretation : formulation of principles underlying the perceive equivalence between a strecth  of language and its translation.
• Information design : the agreement and presentation of written language.
• Lexicography : the compelling of both  monolingual and bilingual dictionaries and also other language references.