Applied Linguistics Methods: A Reader

Caroline Coffin, Theresa Lillis, Kieran O'Halloran

'This book distils into a single volume the rich traditions of Systemic Functional Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis and Ethnography to show how language analysis can be applied to a wide range of real-world issues. It offers graduate students and researchers a useful guide to help them navigate and appreciate the diverse, ever expanding and exciting landscape of Applied Linguistics.' -Peter Teo, National Institute of Education, Singapore'Applied Linguistics Methods provides a rich resource of readings from key researchers and theorists in the discipline. It incorporates different theoretical orientations, methodological approaches and social domains, yet achieves an overall coherence through section introductions and the sequencing of chapters. Importantly, differences in theory or approach are presented as potentially complementary. The book will be of great value to post-graduate students in applied linguistics.' - Susan Hood, University of Technology, Sydney

• Contents, Introduction Part One: Systemic Functional Linguistics, Introduction to Part One, 1. Language, register and genre , J.R. Martin, 2. Online newspapers: evolving genres and evolving theory , John S. Knox, 3. The Processes of learning: On the use of Halliday’s transitivity in academic skills advising, Tim Moore, 4. Acquired language disorders: Some functional insights, Elizabeth Armstrong, Alison Ferguson, Lynne Mortensen and Leanne Togher, 5. Translation error analysis: A systemic functional grammar approach, Mira Kim, Part Two: Critical Discourse Analysis, Introduction to Part Two, 6. Critical Discourse Analysis in action, N. Fairclough and Ruth Wodak, 7. The role of appraisal and corpora in detecting covert evaluation, Caroline Coffin and Kieran O’Halloran, 8. Towards intervention in positive discourse analysis, Tom Bartlett, 9. Highlighting hybridity: A critical discourse analysis of teacher talk in science classrooms , Mary U. Hanrahan, 10.Text, context, pretext: Critical issues in discourse analysis, H.G. Widdowson, Part Three: Ethnography, Introduction to Part Three, 11. Text and context, Jan Blommaert, 12. Adopting an ethnographic perspective in research and pedagogy, Brian Street, 13. Ethnographic studies and adult literacy and policy in South Africa, Catherine Kell, 14. Linguistic ethnography, interactional sociolinguistics and the study of identities, Ben Rampton, 15.Discourse, critique and ethnography: class-oriented coding in accounts of child protection, Stef Slembrouck