Applied linguistics /
Guy Cook
- x, 134 pages ; 20 cm.
- Oxford introductions to language study .
- Oxford introductions to language study .
Includes bibliographical references.
Applied linguistics -- Prescribing and describing:popular and academic views of 'correctness' -- Languages in the contemporary world -- English language teaching (ELT) -- Language and communication -- Context and culture -- Persuasion and poetics: rhetoric and resistance -- Past, present, and future directions.