60 Years of Applied Linguistics : Toward More Engaged Research.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miras, Grégory.

Series:

AILA Applied Linguistics Series

AILA Applied Linguistics Series ; v.22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International Congress of Applied Linguistics.

Applied linguistics.

Genre:

Essays

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2026.

Summary:

This collective volume brings together leading international applied linguists to examine how applied linguistics has transformed in response to shifting political landscapes, technological change, and global challenges.

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Visible and invisible languages

2. Invisible languages

3. Making the invisible visible

4. Engaging with the invisible languages of our times?

References

1. Origin(s)

2. 60 years after Nancy 1964

3. Beyond institutionalization

3.1 The place of bilingualism in Applied Linguistics research

3.2 New roles and identities for Applied Linguistics researchers

3.3 Emerging discourses for social change

3.4 Applied Linguistics

Funding

Acknowledgements

The place of bilingualism in Applied Linguistics research

Chapter 1 Toward diversification of bilingual acquisition research

1. Language diversity and acquisition

2. Bilingual acquisition in a heritage context

Conclusion

Chapter 2 The importance of research-based outreach activities for supporting bilingual families

1. Ideas about early child bilingualism in academia

2. Research on child bilingualism

3. Ideas about early bilingual development outside of academia and their effects

4. Applied Linguistics

New roles and identities for Applied Linguistics researchers

Chapter 3 An ethical-aesthetic account of giving an AILA keynote

1. Keynote as sound and light show

2. Curation

3. An ethical-aesthetic applied linguistics

4. Continuities and departures

Chapter 4 Language as a trace

1. Language as a trace

2. Authorship and idiolect

3. The role of the expert

4. The interpretation of the linguistic trace

5. Imparting expert knowledge

6. How science and linguistics are perceived

7. Outlook

Appendix.

Emerging discourses for social change

Chapter 5 Arturo Escobar's "Pluriversality" paradigm

1. Introduction

2. From multiculturalism to multinaturalism

3. Pluriversality and place-based studies

4. Horizons for applied linguistics

Acknowledgement

Chapter 6 Research in language education, implications of present-day changes

2. Theoretical arguments

2.1 The two-way system between discourse and thought

2.2 Action and discourse

2.3 Agency revisited

2.4 Summary of my theoretical position

3. Epistemological arguments

3.1 Ontological illusion in language teaching

3.2 Tackling the problems

3.3 Concepts and constructs

3.4 Managing uncertainty

3.5 Detachment

3.6 Summary of this epistemological position

4. Present-day problems

4.1 The way to detached-involvement

4.2 Involvement requires empowerment

5. Conclusion

Chapter 7 'Real people's concerns'

1. The social turn in applied linguistics

2. Complex Dynamic Systems Theory

3. A humanist approach to Applied Linguistics

Applied Linguistics

Chapter 8 Applied Linguistics and the emergence of Foreign Language Didactics in France (1958-1984)

1. A brief overview of the history of the teaching of French as a foreign language

2. Towards a historical survey of the role of Applied Linguistics in FFL teaching in France

2.1 The relevant period (1958-1984)

2.2 Issues

2.3 About previous surveys of FFL history (1945-1988)

2.4 A frame of analysis

3. Linguistics applied in Français fondamental (1951-1958) and its aftermath

3.1 Français fondamental, an instance of language planning and linguistics applied

3.2 Français fondamental

4. Applied Linguistics in France (1958-1972).

4.1 Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

4.2 The expansion of Applied Linguistics

4.3 The contribution of Bernard Quemada4 and of the Institut des Professeurs de français à l'étranger (IPFE) to the development of AL in France5

5. A controversy on Applied Linguistics in France

5.1 The terms of the controversy

5.2 Robert Galisson

6. Summary

6.1 The significance of the controversy on Applied Linguistics in France

Primary sources

Secondary sources

Chapter 9 The French Association of Applied Linguistics and it's pre-history

1. Background to the establishment of AFLA

1.1 From the General Directorate of Cultural Relations to the Bureau of Studies and Liaison5

1.2 From the Bureau of Studies and Liaison to AFLA

2. Political issues in defining Applied Linguistics

2.1 Objectives of linguistic outreach

2.2 Academic policy objectives

3. What are the epistemological dimensions at work in defining Applied Linguistics?

3.1 Epistemological orientations from discussion reports

3.2 Orientations implemented within the established network

3.2.1 Scientific events and their content

Primary sources cited

Chapter 10 Problems with problems and solutions in Applied Linguistics

1. The centrality of real-world problem-solving

2. Digging into the problems with the problem and its solution

3. What we do is risky

4. Within and beyond the problem and the risk

5. No less, no more

Chapter 11 Diversity in Applied Linguistics

Epilogue

Postface

Projecting into the future

Authors index

Notions index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

90-272-4396-4

9789027243966

OCLC:

1584466345