Applied linguistics in action : a reader / edited by Guy Cook and Sarah North.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The theory of practice / H.G. Widdowson -- Language, linguistics, and education / Christopher Brumfit -- Continuity and change in views of society in applied linguistics / Ben Rampton -- Making connections : some key issues in social theory and applied linguistics / Alison Sealey and Bob Carter -- Why a global language? / David Crystal -- The ownership of English / H.G. Widdowson -- The (re-) framing process as a collaborative locus for change / Branca F. Fabrício and Denise Santos -- English in the world/the world in English / Alastair Pennycook -- A sociolinguistically based, empirically researched pronunciation syllabus for English as an international language / Jennifer Jenkins -- Interpreting inexplicit language during courtroom examination / Jieun Lee -- One word or two? : psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic interpretations of meaning in a civil court case / Alison Wray and John J. Staczek -- My recaller is on vacation : discourse analysis of nursing-home residents with dementia / Katinka Dijkstra ... [et al.] -- Transforming research on morphology into teacher practice / Jane Hurry ... [et al.] -- Sources, methods, and triangulation in needs analysis : a critical perspective in a case study of Waikiki hotel maids / Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar -- The grammar of conversation / S. Thornbury and D. Slade -- Idioms in everyday use and in language teaching / A. O'Keefe, M. McCarthy, and R. Carter -- Bumping into creative idiomaticity / Luke Prodromou -- Time, tense, and perception in the narrative voice of Bret Easton Ellis's Lunar park / Philip Seargeant -- Applied linguists and institutions of opinion / Greg Myers.