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Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Re-Introduction Open
"Now in its second edition, this accessible guide and introduction to critical applied linguistics provides a clear overview of the problems, debates, and competing views in language education, literacy, discourse analysis, language in the…
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Anthropological Linguistics Open
This collection presents new research on key topics in anthropological linguistics, with a focus on African languages. While Africanist linguists have long been concerned with sociocultural aspects of language structure and use, no compreh…
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Statistical Measures for Usage‐Based Linguistics Open
The advent of usage‐/exemplar‐based approaches has resulted in a major change in the theoretical landscape of linguistics, but also in the range of methodologies that are brought to bear on the study of language acquisition/learning, struc…
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Reproducible research in linguistics: A position statement on data citation and attribution in our field Open
This paper is a position statement on reproducible research in linguistics, including data citation and attribution, that represents the collective views of some 41 colleagues. Reproducibility can play a key role in increasing verification…
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Comparability and measurement in typological science: The bright future for linguistics Open
Linguistics, and typology in particular, can have a bright future. We justify this optimism by discussing comparability from two angles. First, we take the opportunity presented by this special issue of Linguistic Typology to pause for a m…
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The empirical base of linguistics: Grammaticality judgments and linguistic methodology Open
Throughout much of the history of linguistics, grammaticality judgments – intuitions about the well-formedness of sentences – have constituted most of the empirical base against which theoretical hypothesis have been tested. Although such …
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Cognitive Linguistics’ seven deadly sins Open
Cognitive Linguistics is an approach to language study based on three central premises: that the function of language is to convey meaning, that linguistic description must rely on constructs that are psychologically real, and that grammar…
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Critical applied linguistics in the 2020s Open
Critical applied linguistics remains deeply relevant today, arguably more than ever, but it needs constant renewal. This paper returns to these concerns to assess where this project has got to and where it may be headed. I review first bot…
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Phraseology used to comment on results in the Discussion section of applied linguistics quantitative research articles Open
This paper presents word clusters used to comment on results in the Discussion section of quantitative research articles in the field of applied linguistics. The corpus linguistic approach was adopted to identify clusters in 124 Discussion…
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Ten Lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar Open
In this book, Martin Hilpert lays out how Construction Grammar can be applied to the study of language change. In a series of ten lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar, the book presents the theoretical foundations, open questions, a…
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Generative linguistics and neural networks at 60: Foundation, friction, and fusion Open
The birthdate of both generative linguistics and neural networks can be taken as 1957, the year of the publication of foundational work by both Noam Chomsky and Frank Rosenblatt. This article traces the development of these two approaches …
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Against statistical significance testing in corpus linguistics Open
In the first volume of Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory , Gries (2005. Null-hypothesis significance testing of word frequencies: A follow-up on Kilgarriff. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 1(2). doi:10.1515/cllt.2005.1.2.27…
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An Introduction to Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics Open
Numerous theories have been successful in accounting for aspects of language. One of the most substantial theories is Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics (often SFL), which has been employed in the literature on linguistics and appl…
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“Cognitive Linguistics: Looking back, looking forward” Open
Since its conception, Cognitive Linguistics as a theory of language has been enjoying ever increasing success worldwide. With quantitative growth has come qualitative diversification, and within a now heterogeneous field, different – and a…
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APPLIED ETHNOLINGUISTICS is cultural linguistics, but is it CULTURAL LINGUISTICS? Open
The label cultural linguistics has been used to refer either to a broad field of scientific endeavor--which I suggest to call cultural linguistics (in lowercase)--or to a more narrowly defined framework within that field--which I call CULT…
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Animal linguistics: a primer Open
The evolution of language has been investigated by several research communities, including biologists and linguists, striving to highlight similar linguistic capacities across species. To date, however, no consensus exists on the linguisti…
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Mother tongues and languaging in Malaysia: Critical linguistics under critical examination Open
This article brings the critical turn in linguistics—with its current scepticism towards essentialised languages and bias for languaging —under critical evaluation. It does so by bringing it face-to-face with the local-knowledge turn in so…
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The replication crisis, scientific revolutions, and linguistics Open
Relevant issues also feature prominently in methodological handbooks (
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What’s a term? An attempt to define the term within the theoretical framework of text linguistics Open
In texts for specific purposes, terms adopt a behaviour which is contrary to the prescriptive demands of traditional terminology. Indeed, they exhibit variability both on the level of their meaning content and on the level of their linear …
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Epistemological Challenges Against Sociolinguistics Open
Sociolinguistics is a linguistics science that seeks to express the values of life that are revealed in language. Sociolinguistics is stuck in the study of language, which is purely empirical. This assessment can be observed when socioling…
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Eyetracking and Applied Linguistics Open
Eyetracking has become a powerful tool in scientific research and has finally found its way into disciplines such as applied linguistics and translation studies, paving the way for new insights and challenges in these fields. The aim of th…
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Observation, experimentation, and replication in linguistics Open
In this paper, I propose that replication failure in linguistics may be due primarily to inherent issues with the application of experimental methods to analyze an inextricably social phenomenon like language, as opposed to poor research p…
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Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics Open
How might evidence of language use – writing and speech – be used as a way of studying language? Corpus linguistics is the study of linguistic data from a particular language or set of languages. It is a fast-moving approach to studying la…
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Applying cognitive linguistics to foreign language teaching and learning Open
The discipline of Applied Cognitive Linguistics is a recent, still emerging framework, which is situated at the interface of Cognitive Linguistics (CL) and Applied Linguistics research ( Pütz, Niemeier & Dirven 2001a , 2001b ). At its core…
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A usage-based alternative to “lexicalization” in sign language linguistics Open
The usage-based framework considers linguistic structure to be emergent from how human languages are used, and shaped by domain-general cognitive processes. This paper appeals to the cognitive processes of chunking, entrenchment, and routi…
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Corpus Linguistics in Legal Discourse Open
There are many different ways in which modern Corpus Linguistics can be used to enrich and broaden our understanding of legal discourse. Based on the central principle of co-occurrence and co-selection in language construction, this paper …
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Towards an ergonomic linguistics: Application to the design of controlled natural languages Open
This article proposes to define a “new” discipline within applied linguistics: ergonomic linguistics. The article addresses issues concerning language use within organizations, focusing on human‐oriented controlled natural languages (CNLs)…
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Reflecting on the quantitative turn in linguistics Open
Linguistics, English linguistics in particular, has witnessed a remarkable quantitative turn since the 1990s and the early 2000s. It was a turn both in scale and in quality, a turn concerning the degree (including the degree of sophisticat…
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Formal monkey linguistics: The debate Open
We explain why general techniques from formal linguistics can and should be applied to the analysis of monkey communication – in the areas of syntax and especially semantics. An informed look at our recent proposals shows that such techniq…
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INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS Open
Language is all around us. Language allows us to share complicated thoughts, negotiate agreements, and make communal plans. Our learning, our courting, our fighting — all are mediated by language. You can think of language as a technology …