Routledge Focus on Applied Linguistics
HPV Vaccination Discourse Online: A Corpus Linguistic Approach
1st Edition
By Isobelle Clarke, Elena Semino, Zsófia Demjén, Tara Coltman-Patel, William Dance, Richard Gleave
January 30, 2026
This concise volume spotlights an innovative computer-aided approach to linguistic analyses of HPV vaccination discourse on Twitter. The book features a new corpus linguistic technique, developed by the lead author, to studying patterns of language use in large datasets over time, known as Keyword ...
Assessing L2 Digital Multimodal Composing Competence
1st Edition
By Emily Di Zhang, Shulin Yu
October 27, 2025
This book focuses on assessing L2 student digital multimodal composing (DMC) competence. It explores key themes, including the conceptualization of L2 student DMC competence, and the development, validation, and utilization of L2 student DMC competence in the tertiary context. Through a thorough ...
A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Analyzing "Empathy"
1st Edition
By Sabrina Fusari
June 26, 2025
This volume offers an in-depth corpus linguistic analysis of the word “empathy” aiming to foster unique insights into a word widely found across contemporary discourses and into methodological innovations for analyzing large corpora. Given the understanding of empathy’s importance for individual ...
Modeling Metalinguistic Discourses and Language Ideologies
1st Edition
By Adnan Ajšić
June 17, 2025
This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of corpus linguistic approaches to the study of metalinguistic discourses and language ideologies. The book traces the historical trajectories of research on language ideology and metalinguistic discourse, respectively, as a foundation for exploring both...
Emotions and Affect in Language Learning: A Photovoice Study of Learning in Lockdown
1st Edition
By Larisa Nikitina
April 17, 2025
This book explores emotions and affect in language learning during total lockdown during the early phase of the COVID‑19 pandemic when all teaching and learning activities had to transition online. Having classes online and learning in lockdown was an unknown, disconcerting, and emotionally ...
Creative Metaphor, Evaluation, and Emotion in Conversations about Work
1st Edition
By Jeannette Littlemore, Sarah Turner, Penelope Tuck
December 19, 2024
This book explores the roles played by creative and conventional metaphor in expressing positive and negative evaluation within a particular workplace, drawing on interviews with 31 current and former employees of the British Civil Service. Metaphor is often used to express evaluation but ...
Language Policy and the Future of Europe: A Conversation with Seán Ó Riain
1st Edition
By Alice Leal, Seán Ó Riain
December 19, 2024
This volume offers an insider perspective on language policy in the EU, bringing together two key figures well acquainted with its development to reflect critically on the future of language policy and practices in post-Brexit Europe. Born out of Alice Leal’s English and Translation in the European...
Instruction Giving in Online Language Lessons: A Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis
1st Edition
By Müge Satar, Ciara R. Wigham
October 08, 2024
This concise volume calls attention to the instruction-giving practices of language teachers in online environments, in particular videoconferencing, employing a Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis approach to explore the challenges, affordances, and pedagogical implications of teaching in these ...
Health Disparities and the Applied Linguist
1st Edition
By Maricel G. Santos, Rachel Showstack, Glenn Martínez, Drew Colcher, Dalia Magaña
August 26, 2024
Health Disparities and the Applied Linguist bridges theory and practice to demonstrate how applied linguists are uniquely positioned to make vital contributions towards advancing health equity in the U.S. As language, power, and health are deeply interconnected, learning to articulate these ...
Discourses of Borders and the Nation in the USA: A Discourse-Historical Analysis
1st Edition
By Massimiliano Demata
May 27, 2024
This book introduces an innovative critical analysis of borders in contemporary political discourse, using examples from the Trump presidency and early stages of the Biden presidency to explore how borders are used as mechanisms of power to invoke different notions of national identity. // The ...
Contesting Grand Narratives of the Intercultural
1st Edition
By Adrian Holliday
January 29, 2024
Contesting Grand Narratives of the Intercultural uses an autoethnographic account of the author’s experience of living in Iran in the 1970s to demonstrate the constant struggle to prevent the intercultural from being dominated by essentialist grand narratives that falsely define us within separate,...
Moving Beyond the Grammatical Syllabus: Practical Strategies for Content-Based Curriculum Design
1st Edition
By Jason Martel
January 29, 2024
In this concise and practical book, Martel advocates for a content-based approach to foreign language curriculum design that emphasizes communicative competence, cognitive engagement, and social justice. Intended primarily for busy teachers with limited preparation time, the book includes: An ...