Mapping Applied Linguistics – Professor Chris Hall, Dr Patrick Smith, Dr Rachel Wicaksono

Mapping Applied Linguistics is a clear and comprehensive introduction to a complex and extended area of study.  It is, moreover, readily accessible to its intended readership of undergraduate students and non-specialists.

– Susan Samata, Birkbeck, University of London

This innovative book by Professor Chris Hall and colleagues maps the diverse and constantly expanding range of theories, methods and issues practised around the world, integrating sociocultural and cognitive perspectives on a variety of topics from multilingualism to forensic linguistics.

The authors propose a bottom-up exercise of the profession, charging all applied linguists with the social responsibility of using their research findings to benefit the communities from which they gather data…

– Kathryn Ringer-Hilfinger, University at Albany SUNY

This book can be read online via York St John University Library.