Jonathan Culpeper is Professor of English Language and Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK.

Beth Malory is Lecturer in English Linguistics at University College London, UK, and Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK.

Claire Nance is Senior Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK.

Daniel Van Olmen is Senior Lecturer in Linguistic Typology and Language Change in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK.

Dimitrinka Atanasova is Lecturer in Intercultural Communication in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK.

Sam Kirkham is Senior Lecturer in Phonetics in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK.

Aina Casaponsa is Lecturer in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface by Jonathan Culpeper

Section one: Languages structures

Chapter 1 Phonetics

Sam Kirkham and Claire Nance

Chapter 2 Phonology

Claire Nance and Sam Kirkham

Chapter 3 Morphology

Daniel Van Olmen

Chapter 4 Syntax

Daniel Van Olmen

Chapter 5 Semantics

Christopher Hart and Vittorio Tantucci

Chapter 6 Pragmatics

Jonathan Culpeper and Claire Hardaker

Section two: Mind and society

Chapter 7 Sociolinguistics

Beth Malory and Karin Tusting

Chapter 8 Historical linguistics

Beth Malory

Chapter 9 Language acquisition

Silke Brandt and Patrick Rebuschat

Chapter 10 Studying discourse

Beth Malory

Chapter 11 Bilingualism and multilingualism

Claire Nance and Aina Casaponsa

Chapter 12 Communication and culture

Dimitrinka Atanasova

Section three: Applications

Chapter 13 Forensic linguistics and forensic phonetics

Georgina Brown and Claire Hardaker

Chapter 14 Health communication

Elena Semino

Chapter 15 Language in the curriculum

Oksana Afitska and John Clegg

Chapter 16 Critical Discourse Analysis

Christopher Hart

Chapter 17 Language in the workplace

Veronika Koller

Chapter 18 Computational linguistics

Georgina Brown

Section four: Methods

Chapter 19 Research ethics in (applied) linguistics

Uta Papen, Emily Peach, Aina Casaponsa, and Dimitrinka Atanasova

Chapter 20 Experimental methods

Patrick Rebuschat and Aina Casaponsa

Chapter 21 Corpus methods

Tony McEnery and Andrew Hardie

Chapter 22 Field methods

Uta Papen and Claire Nance

Chapter 23 Surveys, questionnaires, interviews and focus groups

Karin Tusting

Chapter 24 Statistics and data visualisation

Vaclav Brezina and Aina Casaponsa

Section five: Issues

Chapter 25 Generative vs. usage-based approaches to language

Willem B. Hollmann

Chapter 26 Linguistic theories of grammar

Willem B. Hollmann and Vittorio Tantucci

Chapter 27 Linguistic relativity

Panos Athanasopoulos

Chapter 28 Linguistic diversity

Claire Nance

Chapter 29 Evolutionary linguistics

Christopher Hart

Chapter 30 Animal communication

Jennifer Hughes

Index