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The Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics
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The Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics

by Carol A. Chapelle
January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
1288 pages
57h 59m
English
Wiley-Blackwell
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LLanguage, Culture, and Context

KAREN RISAGER

An Integrative View of Language

Applied linguistics focuses on the role of language in diverse social practices in society and in the world, often in relation to specific sectors such as education, health, or business. This focus presupposes an integrative view of language in the sense that language is seen as integrated in larger wholes, whether these are theorized in terms of society, culture, world, context, the psyche, or others.

Many fields of language study have been engaged in developing this understanding of language in the integrative sense, arguing for the importance of seeing languages not (only) as structural systems, but as communicative practices in real life, as well as the varying conceptualizations and competences associated with them. Among these fields are sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, the sociology of language, functional linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and cultural linguistics. For example, one influential branch of functional linguistics, systemic functional grammar, considers language as a social semiotic, that is, a coherent symbolic system that constitutes a resource for construing meaning in social contexts and in the wider cultural context (Halliday, 1978). In the area of language teaching, interest in the relationship between language and culture has a long tradition (for a review, see Risager, 2007 and 2018).

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