Applied Linguistics as Social Science surveys the increasing dialogue between linguistics and social theory. The book shows how social theory, applied linguistics and sociolinguistics share a set of common concerns, and how an analysis of these to produce a social scientific account of applied linguistics helps to explain the interaction between social structures, human agents and language. Foreword ? Introduction ? Making connections: some key issues in social theory and applied linguistics ? Sociology and ideas about language ? Language as a cultural emergent property ? Researching language learning: theories, evidence, claims ? Social categories and theoretical descriptions ? Social domain theory: interpreting intercultural communication ? Language in the world: properties and powers ? A social realist approach to research in applied linguistics

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