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FIVE GENERATIONS OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS: SOME FRAMEWORK 1
ISSUES Albert Weideman, Department of Didactics, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville, 7535. E-mail:
[email protected] [email protected] A number of discussions in recent years have kept alive the debate on the definition of applied linguistics. The range of the debate covers both ends of the spectrum of applied linguistic linguistic work: wor k: the philosophical and the practical. pra ctical. This paper att empts to put a response to such (re-)considerations into an interpretative framework, and considers the conception of the discipline as it has evolved over five generations of applied linguistics. The argument of the paper is that different historical understandings of applied linguistic work point to the relativity of the discipline, and prevent its practitioners from entertaining the belief that, because they ar e doing 'applied science', their designed solution to a language problem will be sufficient. 0. First questions A handful of discussions (James 1993; Sridhar 1993; Masny 1996; Lightbown and Spada 1993; and Stevick 1990) have re-opened the debate on the definition of applied linguistics. The first three discussions are of a foundational chara cter, the 1
This is a substantially reworked and expanded version of a set of ar guments presented at the SAALA 1994 conference
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issues are themselves foundational issues. Normally, enquiries involving the framework for our actions and endeavours attempt to answer a number of such 'first questions': What is our vision, what are the perspectives that support our work? ass umptions ns colour and determine our actions? What underlying views and assumptio How is the world organized, and how do our own endeavours fit into that structure? The idea that we have of the world and its structure determines the way that we respond to that world, to the contexts we live in, and to our own actions (cf. Masny 1996: 21, who refers to our "ways of understanding and ways of being in the world"). This responsiveness, or respons-ibility, is the very essence of our lives, also of our professional lives as language teachers, teacher trainers and applied linguists. Free Foron 30this Days Our responsiveness, in the above sense, is alsoRead without doubt always Sign up to vote title situated historically. We therefore respond in and to a particular historical context. Not useful Useful Cancel anytime. All of this applies equally to our visions and practices as applied linguists
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1. The rise of applied linguistics In order to begin to respond to framework questions such as those posed above, we need to gain a historical understanding of applied linguistics. Applied linguistics as it relates to language teaching is a fairly modern phenomenon. It arose in the 1940's, in the latter part of the Second World War. The war effort required American soldiers to be able to speak the languages of the Pacific, or of other places where Americans were dispatched to do battle. Some theoretical linguists, who had an intimate knowledge of the structure of especially the indigenous, American Indian languages, took up this concern. At the inception of applied linguistics as a discipline the first concern was thus with the application of linguistic analyses to language teaching. In audio-lingualism, which marks the beginning of modern applied linguistics, we have an attempted solution to the problem of language teaching that its authors believed could be justified, in addition to linguistic analysis, by behaviourist psychology. Those of us who came through language laboratories in the 60's will remember the Skinnerean approach that supported the learning theory behind audio-lingualism: the more one repeats things, the more likely you are to learn them. Implicit in the approach was also a theory that, in the same way that the linguist dissects language, one needs to break language up into little units. Questions were not asked about whether units of analysis and units of learning could be the same thing. Furthermore, although the manner in which these bits would actually come together in the mind of the learner remained a mystery to behaviourists, still they believed firmly that it would somehow happen. In some fashion all these fragments would be You're Reading a Preview synthesized. Where the theory had left a vacuum, common sense at least seemed to imply that smaller, digestible unitsfullwere Unlock accessmore with a easily free trial.learnable. The approach was imbued with the notion that learning takes place incrementally, in small portions. Most importantly, to its proponents, audio-lingualism prescribed a method that was Download With Free Trial indebted to linguistic theory in its 'scientifically chosen a nd arranged' language 4
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teaching materials: Fries (1945) insists that this approach depends on materials that are arranged according to linguistic principles, that the contribution of the techniques of scientific analysis to language teaching is to 'provide a thorough and consistent check of the language material,' if the language teaching method that derives from this is to be effective in ensuring the maximum progress in the language being learned by the student. There have, of course, been debates about whether the debt that audio-lingualism owes to linguistics is not much more indirect than is often claimed, or, indeed, whether the aural-oral procedure of audio-lingual teaching has anything to do with learning theory (cf. Carroll 1971: 110), but that is another debate. What matters is that the proponents of audio-lingualism thought and believed that they were applying linguistic analysis, and that, in doing so, their efforts were scientific and had for that reason become authoritative. James sums it up (1993: 23): This approach says that since linguistics is about language and it is language that we teach, linguistics must also be about L2 teaching. Applied linguistics, at its inception, therefore responded in the dual sense described above: (a) to the way its originators saw the world (b) to the urgent demands of its historical context Of these, response (a) was to return to haunt the fledgling discipline. The belief that scientific analysis will lead not only to truth but to the desired behaviour in the client has been widespread in applied linguistics. As such, it has been held as an article of faith, which, as Stevick (1990: 17) points out, is 'pervasive, unrecognized, and You're Reading a Preview therefore very powerful.' As Stevick, referring to Maley's pronouncements, also explains, those assumptions that remain untested "aretrial. comparable to the assumptions Unlock full access with a free that lead to acceptance or rejection of what are called religions" (1990: 4). My thesis is therefore that the view that the originators of the discipline had of
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In an earlier analysis of the vacuity of Lado's claim that his seventeen 'principles' of a 'scientific approach' to language teaching were indeed derivable from linguistic theory (Lado 1964: 49ff.), I concluded: Such statements on the 'application' of linguistics in language teaching would, no doubt, have been seen to be bordering on the absurd if it had not been for the aura of scientific truth in which they are dressed up. What is ludicrous upon subjecting them to closer scrutiny, however, becomes tragic when one is reminded that these principles provided the 'scientific' justification for one of the most influential approaches to the teaching of foreign languages, viz. the audio-lingual method (Weideman, 1987: 42). It is a point that applied linguists would do well to remember, and the rest of this discussion will attempt to articulate a way of becoming critically aware ² responsible ² in doing applied linguistics. In this sense I would agree with James (1993: 17) that applied linguistics 'is still under-defined.' 2. The further historical development of applied linguistics Applied linguistics responded in successive waves to a complex set of historical influences, and can be discerned to have undergone various adjustments to bring it into line with the ideas of new users and its context of use. For the sake of coming to an understanding of these developments, I shall categorize them as five successive generations of the discipline, with the linguistic / behaviourist forefather discussed in section 1 above constituting the first of these. The generation that filled the shoes of this parent can be characterized as continuing You're Reading a Preview the linguistic tradition in applied linguistics. The initial kinds of analyses that were considered important before, namely phonological, morphological and syntactic Unlock full access with a free trial. analyses, for a while remained prominent in applied 6
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linguistic work. But the scope of linguistic analysis itself soon broadened to include semantic studies, text linguistics, discourse analysis and all kinds of language studies that placed language in a social context and claimed, therefore, that language was a social phenomenon, an instrument of communication. Those studies began to influence applied linguistics as well, as is evident in the development of some varieties of communicative teaching at the end of the 1970's and the beginning of the 80's. This generation would fall into what Sridhar (1993: 5) categorizes as the 'extended paradigm model' of applied linguistics. What all these developments yielded in the end, however, remained a linguistic conception of applied linguistics . It said, in essence, that if you wanted to teach languages then you had to make an analysis of language first. This conception did not endure. There was obviously something missing. For example, what was missing ² at least initially ² in the communicative approach, was a theory of language learning. The audio-lingualists at least could claim such a theory for their designs, but what sort of learning theory, people were asking in the early 80's, was there behind communicative language teaching? While many could readily agree that not the forms of language but also its functions were important considerations in designing language courses, how students would actually learn better was not clear at the inception of communicative teaching. Initially this was the Achilles heel of the communicative approach. As a result, the predominance of linguistic concerns in applied linguistics came under scrutiny, and those working in the field began to borrow from a multitude of other disciplines: from pedagogy, from psychology and especially from that branch of the You're Reading a Preview latter that dealt with learning theory. The stimulus provided in what some still considered the source discipline, linguistics, by the rise of transformational generative Unlock full access with a free trial. grammar and the latter¶s own reliance on (and contribution to) cognitive psychology, was another cross-current that aided this development. In a word, by linking up with Download With Free Trial insights from various disciplines other than linguistics, third generation applied linguistics became a multi-disciplinary enterprise. 7
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It is difficult to summarize in a few sentences what was in effect a decade of criticism of and change in applied linguistics. One important criticism stands out, a concern that remained in spite of the fact that applied linguistics became a multi-disciplinary undertaking in the early to mid-80's. This criticism was remarkable in that it was evidence of a practical classroom concern that helped to change applied linguistics ² a practitioner's concern, one might call it. The criticism concerned the confusion of analytical units with units of learning. Once one has analyzed a language into forms and sentences ² all highly abstract, analytical objects, theoretical entities, not real ones ² the question remained: are these units necessarily the best units for learning a language that is not one's own? As Corder (1986: 186-187) puts it: The syllabus that a teacher uses is essentially a linear one, a list of linguistic forms in a certain order. From all the evidence we have about the way linguistic knowledge develops spontaneously in the learner, that is not the way things happen. The question remained unanswered in third generation applied linguistics, even among those who entertained social views of language and were using other units of language such as notions and functions as the building blocks with which language courses could be designed. Again, the influence of Chomskyan ideas on applied linguistics should not be underestimated. Chomsky's view of language was taken less as good linguistics to be applied in language teaching than as good psychology, a psychology that could potentially provide an explanation for how languages are learned, and how second languages are acquired. Second language acquisition research was the characteristic You're Reading a Preview feature, therefore, of what I would call fourth generation applied linguistics . As Diane Larsen-Freeman (1993) pointed out with in aa keynote Unlock full access free trial. address to AILA, language teaching methods today, unlike those of the 60's, have grown out of and have been influenced by second language ac quisition research. Download With Free Trial Second language acquisition research gave applied linguistics the hope of finding out enough about how one learns another language in order to know how language 8
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teachers can arrange things in a classroom ² which normally is not a very friendly environment in which to learn a language ² to facilitate language learning. Since it appeared that learning another language is easier and more successful outside of the classroom than inside it, the expectation was that second language acquisition research could tell us how to replicate in a classroom those conditions that exist outside of it, and which appear to make language learning easier. Hence, as Lightbown and Spada (1993: 72) remark: The design of communicative language teaching programs has s ought to replace some of the characteristics of traditional instruction with those more typical of natural acquisition contexts. The influence of Krashen on third generation applied linguistics perhaps stands out more than any other, and the language teaching methodologies that are a prime example of this influence come together in the Natural Approach (Krashen & Terrell 1983; Terrell 1985). These ideas struck a powerful chord in the minds of teachers who had already abandoned traditional grammar translation methods and audio-lingualism for communicative teaching. More recently, in the late eighties, applied linguistics, at least in the way that it is practised in South Africa, has come to rely more heavily on social theory. This fifth generation type of applied linguistics is characterised more than anything else by constructivism. In a way, this resulted in a revival of the older ideas on experiential learning: that somehow, when we learn, we construct knowledge in our interactions with others, be they teachers or peers. Knowledge is systematically constructed in interactions with others: You're Reading a Preview In order to learn, students need an environment that provides both stimuli to learn and resources for learning. ThisUnlock ratherfullstale observation takes on new meaning as we access with a free trial. agree that students must construct their own knowledge... New knowledge comes only from the engagement of the student's own interest in something beyond her present Download With Free Trial understanding (Moulton 1994: 33). In constructivism, incidentally, one found a belated psychological justification for communicative teaching (cf. Greyling 1993). All of the basic techniques of the communicative approach, viz. information gap exercises, role play tasks and group 9
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information gathering techniques, were ideal techniques for allowing the learner to build a language in interaction with others. This generation of applied linguistic work is well represented by research that has been called µinterpretive¶, since such research proposes that all knowledge is culturally embedded in specific social contexts, and that it therefore needs to be understood ... from the particular points of view of the people acting in these contexts and how they collaborate to construct their realities socially (Cumming 1994: 685). As Spada (1994: 686) points out, the value of such analysis is that it allows one to examine interactions (for example between teacher and learner, or between learner and learner) that may be more or less effective for language learning to take place, thus allowing the inexperienced teacher to become sensitive to good (or ineffective) practice, and the experienced teacher to reflect on and find a systematic, rational justification for effective classroom performance. The five generations of applied linguistic work discussed a bove can be summarised in the following diagram: Description Characterised by 1 2 3
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available materials, or in developing your own? Step 3: Fill in the diagram below, and re -design it if necessary, on the basis of the answers you have given to the question above. Authors of material Corpus development Translation problems Role of the teacher Costs Other problems Disadvantages /advantages MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT
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W HAT IS A PPLIED LINGUISTICS THE HISTORY OF A PPLIED LINGUISTICS BRANCHES OF A PPLIED LINGUISTICS What is applied linguistics?
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If you tell someone you re an applied linguist, they look at you with bafflement. If you amplify its to do with linguistics they still look baffled. You know, linguistics the science of language? Ah so you speak lots of languages? Well no, just English. So what do you actually do? Well I look at how people acqui re languages and how we can teach them bette r. At last light begins to dawn and they tell you a sto ry about how badly they we re taught F rench at school. The problem is that the applied linguists themselves don t have much clearer ideas about what the subject You'rerReading a Preview rily has consists of. They a rgue over whethe it necessa anything to do with language teaching o rtrial.with Unlock full access with a free linguistics and whethe r it includes the actual description of language. All of these views exist among Download With Free Trial applied linguists and a re reflected in the MA cou rses available at B ritish unive rsities unde r the label of applied linguistics. The language teaching view of applied linguistics Master yourTESOL semester withbyScribd parallels or TEFL, looking at ways of Foron Read Free 30this Days Sign up to vote title imp roving language teaching, backed by a mo re & The New York Times Useful Not useful rigo rous study of language. The motivation is that Special offer for students: Only $4.99/month.
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applied linguists. This raises the issue whethe r othe r disciplines a re as important as linguistics fo r applied linguistics. Psychology ente rs into many cou rses, as does education, pa rticula rly ideas about testing and about language lea rning. To some applied linguists the discipline draws on any subject with anything to say about language teaching o r language lea rning. To othe rs linguistics is the sole sou rce of ideas. Sometime this is refe rred to as the issue of autonomous applied linguistics ; is it a sepa rate discipline o r a poor relative of linguistics? To some, applied linguistics is applying theo retical linguistics to actual data. Hence the const ruction of dictiona ries or the collection of corpora of millions of words of English a re applied linguistics, as a re the descriptions of social netwo rks or of gende r differences (but not usually desc riptions of g rammar). Once applied linguistics seemed boundless, including the study of fi rst language acquisition You're Reading a Preview and computational linguistics. Now many who call Unlock full access with a free trial. themselves applied linguists seldom attend gene ral organisations such as BAAL (B ritish Association of re Free Applied Linguistics ) but goDownload to mo specialist With Trial conferences such as EUROSLA (Eu ropean Second Language Association) for second language acquisition (SLA) or MATSDA (Materials Development Association ) for materials construction.
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between those who see language as masses of things people have said and those who see it as knowledge in people s minds. Some SLA researchers analyse la rge corpora of learners utte rances or essays; othe rs test thei r ideas against the ba rest minimum of data; neithe r side really accept that the othe r has a valid point of view. Applied linguistics then means many things to many people. Discovering what a book o r a course in applied linguistics is about involves reading the small p rint to discove r its o rientation. Those with an inte rest in linguistic theo ry are going to feel f rust rated when bombarded with class room teaching techniques; those who want to handle la rge amounts of spoken o r written data will be disappointed by single example sentences o r experiments. Of cou rse many people discove r unexpected delights. One of my students who came to an MA cou rse as an EFL cou rse-writer ended up doing a Ph.D. thesis and book on lea rnability theo ry. This does not mean that most p rospective MA students should not look ve ry You're carefully, say checking Reading a Preview the titles of the modules that actually make up the Unlock full r access withraho freertrial. degree scheme, befo re they back a pa ticula se. History
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the te rm was gradually broadened to include what was then refe rred to as 'automatic t ranslation'. In 1964 following two yea rs of prepa rato ry wo rk financed by the Council of Europe, the Association Inte rnationale de Linguistique Appliquee (the Inte rnational Association of Applied Linguistics usually refe rred to by the F rench ac ronym AILA) was founded and its fi rst inte rnational congress was held in Nancy, F rance. Pape rs for the congress we re solicited in two distinct strands foreign language teaching and automatic translation. Applied Linguistics Today
Over the inte rvening yea rs, the foci of attention have continued to b roaden. Today the gove rning board of AILA describes applied linguistics 'as a means to help solve specific problems in society applied linguistics focuses on the nume rous and complex a reas in society in which language plays a role.'* The re appea rs to be consensus that the goal is to apply the findings and the related techniques f rom resea rch in linguistics You're Readingand a Preview disciplines to solve p ractical problems. To an obse rver, Unlocklinguistics full access with a free trial. the most notable change in applied has been its rapid growth as an inte rdisciplina ry field. In addition to fo reign language Download teachingWith and Freemachine Trial translation, a pa rtial sampling of issues conside red central to the field of applied linguistics today includes topics such as language fo r special pu rposes (e.g. language and communication p roblems related to aviation, language diso rders, law, medicine, science ), Read Free Foron 30this Days Sign up to vote title language policy and planning, and language and literacy issues. Fo r example, following the adoption of Not useful Useful Cancel anytime. English as the wo rking language fo r all inte rnational Special offer for students: Only $4.99/month. flight communication by the Inte rnational Civil
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indigenous languages ) or in helping groups develop scripts, mate rials, and lite racy prog rams for previously unwritten languages (e.g. fo r many of the 850+ indigenous languages of Papua New Guinea ). Othe r applied linguists have been conce rned with developing the most effective p rograms possible to help adult newcome rs to the United States o r othe r countries, many of whom have limited if any p rio r education, develop lite racy in the languages which they will need fo r survival and fo r occupational purposes. Othe r topics currently of conce rn to applied linguists are the b road issue of the optimal role of the mother tongue in the education of cultu rally and linguistically dive rse students, the language of persuasion and politics, developing effective tools and prog rams for interpretation and t ranslation, and language testing and evaluation. In the United Kingdom, the fi rst school of applied linguistics is thought to have opened in 1957 at the rd as Unive rsity of Edinbu rgh with Ian Catfo Head. In You're Reading a Preview the United States, a nonp rofit educational Unlock full access with a free trial. organization, the CENTER FOR A PPLIED LINGUISTICS (CAL), was founded in 1959 with Cha rles Fe rguson as its fi rst Directo r. CAL's mission remainsDownload to 'promote the study With Free Trial of language and to assist people in achieving thei r educational, occupational, and social goals th rough more effective communication'. The o rganization carries out its mission by collecting and disseminating information th rough various clearinghouses that it Read Free Foron 30this Days Sign up to vote title operates, by conducting p ractical resea rch, by developing p ractical mate rials and t raining individuals Useful Not useful Cancel anytime. rs, administ rato rs, or other human such as teache Special offer for students: Only $4.99/month. resource specialists to use these to reduce the ba rriers
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The term multilingualism can refe r to an occurrence rega rding an individual speake r who uses two (bilingualism )o r more languages, a community of speake rs whe re two o r more languages a re used, o r between speake rs of different languages. Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) can be defined b roadly as any form of human inte raction across two o r more netwo rked compute rs. While the refe rred term has traditionally to those communications that occu r via computer-mediated formats (i.e., instant messages, e-mails, chat rooms)it has also been applied to othe r forms of text-based inte raction such as text messaging (Thu rlow, Lengel, & Tomic,2004). Research on CMC focuses largely on the Reading r a-suppo Preview rted social effects of diffe rentYou're compute recent communication technologies. Unlock Many full access with a freestudies trial. involve Inte rnet-based social netwo rking suppo rted by social softwa re. Download With Free Trial Conversation analysis (commonly abb reviated as CA ) is the study of talk in inte raction. CA gene rally attempts to desc ribe the o rderliness, st ructure and sequential patte rns of inte raction, whethe r this is rts institutional (in the school, docto r's surgery, cou o rvote Read Free Foron 30this Days Sign up to title elsewhe re) or casual conversation. Thus, use of the Useful Not useful Cancel ry anytime. term to label this disciplina conversation Special offer for students: Only $4.99/month. movement is misleading if read in a colloquial sense, as many have. In light of this, one of CA incipal
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associates Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jeffe rson. Sacks died ea rly in his career, but his wo rk was championed by othe rs in his field, and CA has now become an established fo rce in sociology, anthropology, linguistics, speech-communication and psychology. It is pa rticula rly influential in inte ractional sociolinguistics, discou rse analysis and discu rsive psychology, as well as being a cohe rent discipline in its own right. Recently CA techniques of sequential analysis have been employed by phoneticians to explo re the fine phonetic detail of speech. Discourse analysis (DA ), o r discourse studies, is a gene ral term for a numbe r of approaches to analyzing written, spoken o r signed language use. The objects of discou rse analysis discou rse, writing, talk, conversation, communicative event, etc.are variously defined in te rms of coherent sequences of sentences, p ropositions, speech acts o r turns-at-talk. Contrary to much of t raditional linguistics, discou rse analysts not only study language use 'beyond You're Reading a Preview the sentence bounda ry', but also p refer to analyze access not with a free trial. 'natu rally occurring' language Unlock use,fulland invented examples. Download With Free Trial Discourse analysis has been taken up in a va riety of social science disciplines, including linguistics, anth ropology, sociology, cognitive psychology, social psychology, inte rnational relations communication studies and t ranslation studies, each of which is Read Free Foron 30this Days Sign up to vote title subject to its own assumptions, dimensions of analysis, and methodologies. Useful Not useful
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studies. The social aspects of language we re in the mode rn sense fi rst studied by Indian and Japanese linguists in the 1930s, and also by Gauchat in Switze rland in the early 1900s, but none received much attention in the West until much late r. The study of the social motivation of language change, on the othe r hand, has its foundation in the wave model of the late 19th centu ry. Sociolinguistics in the west fi rst appea red in the 1960s and was pionee red by linguists such as William Labov in the US and Basil Be rnstein in the UK. Second language acquisition is the p rocess by which people lea rn a second language in addition to thei r native language(s). The te rm second language is used to desc ribe the acquisition of any language afte r the acquisition of the mothe r tongue. The re is also resea rch into the simila rities and diffe rences of Third Language Acquisition. The language to be lea rned is often referred to as the "ta rget language" o r "L2", compared to the fi rst language,You're "L1".Reading Second language a Preview acquisition may be abb reviated "SLA", o r L2A, fo r "L2 Unlock full access with a free trial. acquisition". The te rm "language acquisition" became commonly Download With Free Trial used afte r Stephen K rashen cont rasted it with fo rmal and non-const ructive "learning." Howeve r, "second language acquisition" o r "SLA" has become established as the p referred te rm fo r this academic discipline.
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person wanted to ask someone else to stop smoking. This can be achieved by using seve ral utte rances. The person could simply say, 'Stop smoking, please!' which is di rect and with clea r semantic meaning; alternatively, the pe rson could say, 'Whew, this room could use an ai r pu rifie r' which implies a simila r meaning but is indi rect and therefo re requi res pragmatic infe rence to de rive the intended meaning. Pragmatics is rega rded as one of the most challenging aspects fo r language lea rners to grasp, and can only truly be lea rned with expe rience. Forensic linguistics is the name given to a numbe r of sub-disciplines within applied linguistics, and which relate to the inte rface between language, the law and crime. The range of topics within fo rensic linguistics is dive rse but resea rch occurs in the following a reas. rpretation Translation is the action of You're inte Reading of the a Preview meaning of a text, and subsequent p roduction of an with a free trial.that ranslation, equivalent text, also calledUnlock a fulltaccess communicates the same message in anothe r language. rce The text to be t ranslated is called the With "sou text," Download Free Trial and the language it is to be t ranslated into is called the "target language"; the final p roduct is sometimes called the "ta rget text."
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Spanish ). The art of translation is as old as w ritten lite ratu re. Parts of the Sume rian Epic of Gilgamesh, among the oldest known lite rary wo rks, have been found in translations into seve ral Asiatic languages of the second millennium BCE. The Epic of Gilgamesh may have been read, in thei r own languages, by ea rly autho rs of the Bible and of the Iliad. With the advent of compute rs, attempts have been made to compute rize or othe rwise automate the translation of natu ral-language texts (machine translation) or to use compute rs as an aid to translation (compute r-assisted t ranslation).
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