Applied Linguistic

1 what is applied linguistics?

• "It is understood as an open field, in which those inhabiliting or passing through simply show a common commiment to the potential value of dialogue with people who are different"(Rampton 1997:14)

• "Applied linguistics ( is now) a cover term for sizeable group of semi-autonomous disciplines, each dividing its parentage and allegiances between the formal study of lenguage and other relevants fields, and each working to develop its own methodologies and principles" (Spolsky 2005: 36)

An introducti9on to Applied Linguistics: From Practice to Theory by Alan Davies

• "Applied linguistics the academic discipline concerned with the relation of knowledge about language to decision making in the real world". 

Applied Linguistics by Guy Cook

• Applied linguistic concerned to how use knowledge through language, language as a mean to communicate opinions, point of view, politics messages and anothers, it means that applied linguistics has subdivisions that study language and its uses according to the environment and how people practice in many and different situation.

3. Areas of Applied Linguistics

The areas of Applied Linguistics are:

1. Language and education: Those are includes First-language education when child studies their home language or languages; additional-language education that is divided into second-language education and foreing-language education. Clinical linguistics, language testing.
2. Language, work and law: This area include workplace communication the study of how language is used in workpalce. language planing the making of decision, often supported by legislation, forensic linguistics the deployment of linguistic evidence in criminal and other legal investigation.
3. Language, information and effect: this area includes Literary stylistics, Critical Discourse Analysis(CDA), Translation and interpretation, Information design, typography and lexicography.

Applied Linguistics By Guy Cook