Everyday Languaging

Deals with theory building within applied linguistics and sociolinguistics by looking at the role of language in the lives, and understandings of real children and youth in an urban setting. This title shows how urban children and youth construct, negotiate, and navigate between different linguistic and sociocultural norms and resources.

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The series Trends in Applied Linguistics aims to meet the challenges of the rapidly growing field of applied linguistics. Applied linguistics is understood, in a broad sense, by focusing on the application of theoretical linguistics to current problems arising in different contexts of human society. Given the interdisciplinary character of applied linguistics, the series includes cognitive, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and educational perspectives. The series covers the following topics, among others: Second language acquisition and the acquisition of additional languages Bilingual and multilingual education Language planning and language policy Literacy skills Second/foreign language pedagogy Translation and interpretation Language for specific purposes Discourse analysis Language testing and assessment Child language Language and gender Pragmatics and rhetorics Corpus analysis Critical pedagogies Research methodology in applied linguistics To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.