Applied Linguistics As Social Science

Applied Linguistics as Social Science surveys and explains the increasing dialogue between linguistics and social theory. It shows how social theory and applied linguistics and sociolinguistics share a set of common concerns including the nature of the relationship between structure and agency, the ontological status of language, the role of language in identity formation and the role of language in theoretical description. Distinctive features of this book include its use of empirical examples chosen for relevance to both applied sociolinguistics and sociology, its use of subheadings to signpost the narrative development and the summarizations at the end of each chapter all of which make this a useful student text.

Alison Sealey is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading Bob Carter is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Warwick