scholarly journals Applied Linguists

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
Kanavillil Rajagopalan
Keyword(s):  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
States Of Affairs ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Analytic Work ◽  
Critical Turn

This paper seeks out future directions for the field of study that has by now fully consolidated itself as an independent discipline under the name of Applied Linguistics. Special attention is drawn to the ‘loosening up’ of the very notion of language as a hermetically sealed entity, impervious to outside influences, as well as the groundbreaking critical turn it has taken in recent years, along with the impulse to intervene in the states of affairs that it unveils through painstaking studies. It is shown that this last development is by no means an optional follow-through from the analytic work customarily done. Rather, it is an inevitable sequel to the new stance adopted by researchers in the field – a development whose roots can, oddly enough, be traced back to Saussure’s thoughts at the very dawn of Linguistics, its ‘mother discipline’.  But it is also emphasized that, side by side with these exciting prospects, there also appear on the horizon some serious challenges to reckon with in the years ahead.

Multilingualism in Australia

2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 17.1-17.21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia Rubino
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Significant Component ◽  
Cultural And Linguistic Diversity ◽  
New Research ◽  
Critical Overview

This paper gives a critical overview of Australian research in the area of immigrant languages, arguing that this field of study is a significant component of the wider applied linguistics scene in Australia and has also contributed to enhancing the broad appreciation of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the country. It shows that research into immigrant languages has drawn upon a range of paradigms and evaluates those that have been most productively used. The paper argues that new research developments are needed to take into account the changing linguistic landscape of Australia and the increased fluidity and mobility of current migration.

1. CONVERSATION ANALYSIS AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS

2002 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 3-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuel A. Schegloff ◽  
Irene Koshik ◽  
Sally Jacoby ◽  
David Olsher
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Analytic Work ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Assessment Tasks ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Word Selection

Conversation Analysis (CA) as a mode of inquiry is addressed to all forms of talk and other conduct in interaction, and, accordingly, touches on the concerns of applied linguists at many points. This review sketches and offers bibliographical guidance on several of the major relevant areas of conversation-analytic work—turn-taking, repair, and word selection—and indicates past or potential points of contact with applied linguistics. After covering these areas, we include a brief discussion of some key themes in CA's treatment of talk in institutional contexts. Finally, we discuss several established areas of applied linguistic work in which conversation analytic work is being explored—native, nonnative, and multilingual talk; talk in educational institutions; grammar and interaction; intercultural communication and comparative CA; and implications for designing language teaching tasks, materials, and assessment tasks. We end with some cautions on applying CA findings to other applied linguistic research contexts.

Emerging queer epistemologies in studies of ‘gay’-student discourses

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia D. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Classroom Talk ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Composition I

Education is arguably one of the most significant, urgent, and rapidly changing arenas for research on language and sexual identity, but there has been little synthesis to date of the knowledge and theories of knowledge that are emerging through this work. Here I survey a relatively small but important segment of this disparate literature: studies that investigate classroom talk about and by students who either self-identify as gay, lesbian or queer, or who are positioned as such by others. By bringing together such studies from applied linguistics as well as education and literacy/composition, I seek to consolidate and to cultivate critical explorations of sexual identity, language and learning as interlinked domains. To this end, I identify some defining features of the queer epistemologies that are emerging in the empirical, lingua-centric literature on ‘gay’-student discourses, and I suggest future directions for this sort of work.

scholarly journals Book Review: The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Steven R. Edscorn
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Digital Journalism ◽  
Financial Strategies

This work contains fifty-seven scholarly essays, averaging more than ten pages in length that approach digital journalism as a discrete field of study. The work includes ten major topical divisions that include “Conceptualizing digital journalism studies,” “Investigating digital journalism,” “Financial strategies for digital journalism,” Digital journalism studies: Issues and debates,” “Developing digital journalism practice,” “Digital journalism and audiences,” “Digital journalism and social media,” “Digital journalism content,” “Global digital journalism,” and “Future directions.”

scholarly journals Kieli ja taide

2020 ◽  
pp. i-xx
Author(s):  
Sari Pöyhönen ◽  
Heli Paulasto
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
General Introduction ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Music Literature ◽  
Art Forms

This article introduces the AFinLA-e thematic issue focusing on creative inquiry in applied linguistics. This is a relatively new field of research, but it is expanding fast. Our aim is therefore to give a brief general introduction into this transdisciplinary field – its trajectories, approaches, methods and future directions – and to describe the contributions that the articles in this issue make into the growing body of work. The articles display a variety of research topics and approaches, illustrative of the diversity of research in the field. Art adopts a number of different roles: context, medium, process, partner, or the outcome of a research project. The articles cover various art forms, such as music, literature, visual arts, social circus, dance and photography, as well as a number of approaches to language and communication.

Multilingualism in Australia

2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 17.1-17.21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia Rubino
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Significant Component ◽  
Cultural And Linguistic Diversity ◽  
New Research ◽  
Critical Overview

This paper gives a critical overview of Australian research in the area of immigrant languages, arguing that this field of study is a significant component of the wider applied linguistics scene in Australia and has also contributed to enhancing the broad appreciation of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the country. It shows that research into immigrant languages has drawn upon a range of paradigms and evaluates those that have been most productively used. The paper argues that new research developments are needed to take into account the changing linguistic landscape of Australia and the increased fluidity and mobility of current migration.

scholarly journals Looking Back, Looking Ahead: An Interview with Professor ZhaoHong Han

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kim ◽  
Wai Man Adrienne Lew ◽  
Haimei Sun
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Original Research Article ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Founding Editor ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Looking Back

On April 8, 2021, we had the great pleasure of speaking over Zoom with Professor ZhaoHong Han, the founding editor of SALT, which was originally called Working Papers in TESOL and Applied Linguistics. In celebration of the journal’s 20thanniversary, we discussed the motivation and vision behind establishing a web journal, future directions, essential qualities of an outstanding original research article, and advice for early career scholars and graduate students who are starting out to get their work published in journals.

scholarly journals Applied linguistics as epistemic assemblage

AILA Review ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 113-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alastair Pennycook
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Linguistic Practices ◽  
Matters Of Concern ◽  
North And South ◽  
Do So

AbstractAny discussion of transdisciplinary applied linguistics needs to engage with three central questions. First, whileinterdisciplinarity may allow for disciplines to stay in place and engage with each other,transdisciplinarity implies a space beyond or above disciplines. As a result, we have to consider whether applied linguistics is seen as a discipline (in which case it is not transdisciplinary) or whether it is seen as a transdisciplinary field of study (in which case it is not a discipline). Second, while applied linguists may engage with work from other fields – sociology, geography, philosophy, cognitive science are common examples – this does not necessarily mean that we engage with those fields as disciplines. Rather, the engagement with such work is often on the basis that relevant thinkers are engaging themselves with broader epistemic shifts. Such work may therefore be seen as having to do withepistemesrather than disciplines. Third, a focus on transdisciplinarity obscures broader concerns about unequal relations of knowledge production, particularly between North and South. If applied linguistics is to become a responsible field of work, it needs to engage with southern epistemologies. In order to do so, applied linguistic practices can be more usefully understood as temporary assemblages of thought and action that come together at particular moments when language-related concerns need to be addressed. This flexible account helps us see how applied linguistic practices are assemblages of different language-oriented projects, epistemes and matters of concern.

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