Books in the Advances in Applied Linguistics series

Extending the scope and coverage of genre theory, this book gives more emphasis to what is known as pragmatic space; in other words it integrates the study of discourse at the textual level with the study of how that discourse operates in its social context.

Applied Linguistics As Social Science surveys the increasing dialogue between linguistics and social theory.

This text brings together scholars from a wide variety of linguistic orientations to describe language development from a relational perspective. The theme of ecology affords a fresh look into phenomena not encompassed by language acquisition or language socialization research alone.

Metaphor is recognized as widespread and intrinsic to language use. This work examines the use and understanding of metaphor in everyday classroom discourse and in informational texts.