WANYI CHEN
1. An overview of applied linguistics
TASK 21
The following disciplines can be (depending on the specific
approach) integrated within AL. Match them to their corresponding
definitions. Note that there is one discipline whose definition is not
provided here.
Ethnography Speech pathology L2 Acquisition
Corpus linguistics Lexicography Pragmatics
Sociolinguistics Neurolinguistics L1 Acquisition
Lexicology Forensic linguistics Ethnomethodology
Language planning Psycholinguistics Critical Discourse Analysis
1. Language planning: the systematic approach to developing language as a national or
regional resource. (Davies 1999, glossary)/ official intentions and policies affecting
language use in a country. (Crystal 1987: 424)
2. Lexicography The art and science of dictionary making
3. Pragmatic it studies the factors that govern our choice of language in social interaction
and the effects of our choice on others. This field overlaps with other areas, such as
sociolinguistics or discourse analysis, among others.
4. Lexicology The study of the history and present state of a language’s vocabulary.
5. Neurolinguistics The study of the neurological basis of language development an
use in human beings, especially of the brain’ s control over the processes of speech
and understanding.
6. Speech pathology The study of abnormalities in the development and use of language in
children and adults.
7. Sociolinguistics The study of the interaction between language and the structure and
functioning of society.
8. Psycholinguistics The study of the relationship between linguistic behaviour and the
psychological processes (e.g. memory, attention) thought to underlie it.
9. Ethnography The study of the forms and functions of communicative behaviour, both
verbal and non-verbal, in particular social settings / The study of language in relation to the
social and cultural variables that influence human interaction.
10. Corpus linguistics It uses large collections of both spoken and written natural texts that
are stored on computers
pplied linguistics (Task 2. unit 1). EMC
1 This worksheet was created by Dr Begoña Núñez Perucha and is used here
with some minor modifications.
