This second edition of the foundational textbook An Introduction to Applied Linguistics provides a state-of-the-art account of contemporary applied linguistics. The kinds of language problems of interest to applied linguists are discussed and a distinction drawn between the different research approach taken by theoretical linguists and by applied linguists to what seem to be the same problems. …
An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture is widely recognized as an immensely useful textbook for students taking courses in the major theories of popular culture. Strinati provides a critical assessment of the ways in which these theories have tried to understand and evaluate popular culture in modern societies.
The book starts with a discussion of how pragmatics has come to be a sub-study of linguistics and then anchors on language in use, which basically focuses on the analysis of meaning, particularly aiming at introducing the students with the notion of meaning and its complexities. Speaker meaning is particularly in focus as it is generally perceived as the domain where pragmatics most significant…