{"product_id":"9783031675584","title":"A Theory of Applied Linguistics : magining and Disclosing the Meaning of Design (Educational Linguistics 65)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book adopts as conceptual focus the technical mode of experience, exploring this characteristic mode of design as the angle from which the discipline of applied linguistics takes its cue. What makes applied linguistic concept formation possible? A number of elementary concepts and ideas are so basic to the discipline that they can neither be ignored nor avoided. These 'primitives' are identified by examining the connections among the technical and other modalities, such as the spatial, the physical, the social, economic, aesthetic, juridical and the ethical. A theory of applied linguistics must be robust enough to do justice to different modernist and postmodernist paradigms operating in the discipline, systematically identifying and assessing their strengths and blind spots.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book offers a response to the question of the usefulness of theory. The principles of design revealed in the theoretical analysis are given shape in developing imaginative language interventions to solve vexing language problems not for the sake of theory, but for the benefit of those affected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is intended for use both as a reference and as a comprehensive, unifying perspective of what the field is, by scholars in applied linguistics and related fields (TESOL, ESL, ESP, EAP, SLA studies, language assessment and testing, language policy development), by postgraduate students or those who teach or study applied linguistics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1\u003c\/strong\u003e: Theorizing history: the design and preparation of language solutions.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e- Chapter 2: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eProcess and plan: the five phases of applied linguistic designs.- \u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3: \u003c\/strong\u003eThe nucleus of design: abstracting from artefact to modality. \u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4: \u003c\/strong\u003eSystematicity.- \u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5: \u003c\/strong\u003eRange and scope.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e- \u003c\/em\u003eChapter 6\u003cem\u003e: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eConsistency.- \u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7: \u003c\/strong\u003eAdequacy\u003cstrong\u003e.- Chapter 8: \u003c\/strong\u003eDifferentiation\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e.- \u003c\/em\u003eChapter 9\u003cem\u003e: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eIntuitive appeal\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e.- \u003c\/em\u003eChapter 10\u003cem\u003e: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eTheoretical defensibility\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e.- \u003c\/em\u003eChapter 11: \u003c\/strong\u003eMeaningfulness\u003cstrong\u003e.- Chapter 12: \u003c\/strong\u003eAccessibility\u003cstrong\u003e.- Chapter 13: \u003c\/strong\u003eUtility.\u003cstrong\u003e- Chapter 14: \u003c\/strong\u003eAlignment\u003cstrong\u003e.- Chapter 15: \u003c\/strong\u003eAccountability\u003cstrong\u003e.- Chapter 16: \u003c\/strong\u003eCare, compassion and respect.- \u003cstrong\u003eChapter 17: \u003c\/strong\u003eTrustworthiness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlbert Weideman is Professor of Applied Language Studies and Research Fellow at the University of the Free State. He is a rated researcher with the National Research Foundation in South Africa, has published more than ninety articles in accredited national as well as in international journals, and is the author of several books. These include \u003cem\u003eBeyond expression: A systematic study of the foundations of linguistics\u003c\/em\u003e (Van Schaik\/Paideia Press 2009) and \u003cem\u003eResponsible design in applied linguistics: Theory and practice\u003c\/em\u003e (Springer, 2017). He was the main editor of \u003cem\u003eAssessing academic literacy in a multilingual context: Transition and transformation\u003c\/em\u003e (2021, Multilingual Matters), and co-editor of and contributor to \u003cem\u003eEthics and context in second language testing: Rethinking validity in theory and practice\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge, 2024). He has recently contributed chapters to \u003cem\u003eToegepaste taalkunde in Afrikaans\u003c\/em\u003e (2022), to the third edition of \u003cem\u003eKontemporêre Afrikaanse taalkunde\u003c\/em\u003e (2024; both from Van Schaik), and to a forthcoming volume in the Cambridge University Press series \u003cem\u003eStudies in Language Testing\u003c\/em\u003e (SILT) on \u003cem\u003eLearning about assessing language: a matter of literacy or competency development\u003c\/em\u003e? (Eds. B. Baker \u0026amp; L. Taylor).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e A Theory of Applied Linguistics succeeds in presenting language intervention designs as a celebration of humanity. a valuable, systematic corrective to the fragmentation of the field, challenging us to design with greater responsibility, integrity, and insight. (Ward Peeters, Philosophia Reformata, February 18, 2026)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52435169182007,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":758.46,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9783031675584","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}