An Introduction to Linguistics and Language Studies - Second Edition - Anne McCabe
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An Introduction to Linguistics and Language Studies - Second Edition - Anne McCabe
Anne McCabe [+]
Saint Louis University
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Anne McCabe is a faculty member of the English Department at Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus, Spain, where she teaches linguistics, ESL and writing pedagogy to undergraduate and graduate students. She has published widely on application of Systemic Functional Linguistics to analysis of educational and media texts including An Introduction to Linguistics and Language Studies (Equinox).
Description
Chapter 9 is a set of vignettes written by linguists around the world. Each one explains his/her specific field of linguistics, commenting on the kinds of research and applications each perspective involves. Topics included are, from a theoretical perspective, cognitive linguistics, formal linguistics and functional linguistics, from a descriptive perspective, computational linguistics, contrastive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and historical linguistics, and from an applied perspective, clinical linguistics, critical discourse analysis, educational linguistics, forensic linguistics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics.