Foreword by Derek Layder; Introduction; Making connections: some key issues in social theory and applied linguistics; Sociology and ideas about language; Language as a cultural emergent property; Researching language learning: theories, evidence, claims; Social categories and theoretical descriptions; Social domain theory: interpreting intercultural communication; Language in the world: properties and powers; A social realist approach to research in applied linguistics
Alison Sealey is Senior Lecturer in Modern English Language at the University of Birmingham. Bob Carter is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Warwick.
"Sealey and Carter should be congratulated for bridging
disciplinary boundaries and attempting to provide a sociological
and linguistic theory for everyone. Applied Linguistics as Social
Science will come as a welcome addition to the literature of
social/linguistic theory for both social scientists and applied
linguists." --The Linguist List, February 2005
*The Linguist List*
"Sealey and Carter should be congratulated for bridging
disciplinary boundaries and attempting to provide a sociological
and linguistic theory for everyone. Applied Linguistics as Social
Science will come as a welcome addition to the literature of
social/linguistic theory for both social scientists and applied
linguists." --The Linguist List, February 2005
*The Linguist List*
"Lloyd-Smith provides concise chapters on the definition of
American gothic, its key texts, major themes, and critical response
to the genre....displays a fan's admiration for a literary form
that still fails to get respect....Recommended." -Choice, 3/05
*Choice*
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