New Themes and Dimensions in Applied Linguistics

The volume New Themes and Dimensions in Applied Linguistics is a collection of articles written by scholars from different academic centres in the world who are interested in applied linguistic studies. In a novel and innovative way, it presents and discusses problems relevant to applied linguistics and emphasizes the important role which language-related practices and research play in such areas of human activity as foreign language learning and teaching and translation. The contributors to this volume and the notions which they deal with in their texts are as follows:

Tomasz Róg – a disinhibiting effect of linguistic creativity on L2 acquisition;
Kutay Uzun – computational methods used to explore moral and sentimental foundations of phrasal complexity in L2 writing;
Ali Şükrü Özbay, Mustafa Zeki Çıraklı, Ferhan Ertürk – corpus investigation of the use of „hedges“ in native and non-native academic writing;
Pınar Çil, Ferit Kılıçkaya – the use of L1 translation activities in teaching vocabulary to young learners;
Meng-Lin Chen, Dahui Dong – grammatical metaphors in the translation of research article abstracts as shown in a corpus-based study of native English-speaking and native Chinese-speaking translators;
Mustafa Zeki Çıraklı, Ali Şükrü Özbay – the use of corpus stylistics in the drama classroom and related characterization in The Merchant of Venice;
Artur Urbaniak, Marlena Iwona Bielak – a Public Presentation Evaluation Tool (PPET) viewed from a pragma-rhetoric perspective;
Marek Krawiec, Robert Pritchard – cross-linguistic and cross-cultural content in ABBA’s songs and its relevance to EFL classes.

Featuring a wide spectrum of notions, the volume may serve as a useful guidebook for all those who wish to gain a more thorough insight into new themes and dimensions in applied linguistics, and who appreciate the applicability of language and language studies to real-life contexts.