8. A relational way ahead?
Applied Linguistics - Towards a New Integration? - Lars Evensen
Lars Sigfred Evensen [+ ]
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Lars Sigfred Evensen is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU, Trondheim) and Chair of The Norwegian Association for Applied Linguistics (ANLA). He chaired The Nordic Research Group for Theoretical and Applied Text Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (NORDTEXT) 1987-1993 and has been an honorary board member since. His main research interests are in epistemology, discourse analysis, the acquisition of writing and technologically mediated interdisciplinary communication. He edited the journal Trondheim Papers in Applied Linguistics 1986-1989. He has edited the anthologies Nordic research in text linguistics and discourse analysis (1986), Innovation in the teaching of writing (in Norwegian, with Inge Moslet, 1993), Writing theory and classroom practices (in Norwegian, with Torlaug L. Hoel, 1997) and the interdisciplinary Thinking culture dialogically (with Craig Brandist, The International Bakhtin Centre, Sheffield, Finn Bostand and Hege Faber, NTNU, Trondheim, 2004).
Description
This chapter makes an attempt to explore further into the nature of the proposed links between an epistemological and historical understanding, on the one hand, and theory of communication and learning as well as methodology on the other hand. The chapter further argues that all the proposed approaches to metatheory, theory and methodology have a relational perspective in common.