On the Subject of English the Linguistics of Language Use and Learning

The globalized use of language calls into question conventional ways of thinking in linguistics, applied linguistics and language pedagogy. This book critically examines this thinking from an historical, at times satirical, perspective and proposes an alternative conceptualization. The first section...

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Main Author: Widdowson, Henry
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 330
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Acknowledgements --  |t Contents --  |t Introduction: Only connect! --  |t Section 1: Theoretical bearings --  |t Preamble --  |t Section 2: Linguistics and applied linguistics --  |t Preamble --  |t 1. Contextual meaning and the legacy of J.R. Firth --  |t 2. Linguistic creativity and Jakobson's poetic function --  |t 3. Applied linguistics, interdisciplinarity and disparate realities --  |t 4. On the applicability of empirical findings --  |t Section 3: The analysis and interpretation of language use --  |t Preamble --  |t 5. The pretext of interpretation --  |t 6. Interpersonal positioning and genre conventions --  |t 7. "So the meaning escapes". On literature and the representation of linguistic realities --  |t 8. Critical practices: On representation and the interpretation of text --  |t 9. The novel features of text. Corpus analysis and stylistics --  |t 10. The unrecoverable context --  |t 11. Macbeth and the third murderer. An exercise in forensic stylistics --  |t Section 4: English as a lingua franca --  |t Preamble --  |t 12. ELF and the inconvenience of established concepts --  |t 13. ELF and the pragmatics of language variation --  |t 14. ELF, adaptive variability and virtual language --  |t 15. The cultural and creative use of English as a lingua franca --  |t 16. Creative incompetence --  |t Section 5: Linguistics in language learning and teaching --  |t Preamble --  |t 17. The role of translation in language learning and teaching --  |t 18. Bilingual competence and lingual capability --  |t 19. Competence and capability: rethinking the subject English --  |t 20. Reversions --  |t References --  |t Name Index --  |t Subject Index 
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