The scope of applied linguistics应用语言学范畴.doc

The Scope of Applied Linguistics 姓名：张琦 年级：14级英语语言文学 学号Abstract: the aim of the paper is to discuss some important aspects of applied linguistics, including its scope, relationship with linguistics, cultural studies, etc. The term “applied linguistics” was firstly proposed by Polish linguist Baudouin de Courtenay. He thought the object of applied linguistics research is to apply theoretical linguistic knowledge to solve problems of other disciplines. However, there are still no exact answers to such problems as the scope, definition, characteristics of applied linguistics. The paper makes a comparison between Gertraud Benke’s dissertation Applied linguistics-a science of culture? and Guy Cook’s book Applied Linguistics, finds their commons, introduces some important conceptions, etc. Such methodologies as ontology, epistemology will be taken. The result of the paper shows that applied linguistics is interdisciplinary, which can extend its scope to many other fields, including linguistics and cultural studies. The necessity of discussion of important concepts of applied linguistics is: has knowledge of basic concepts of a discipline is the presupposition of learning it; moreover, understanding scope and definition of applied linguistics can be useful for further research. Key words: applied linguistics; general linguistics; concepts; scope; cultural studies Introduction Applied linguistics is a developing science. In 1975, a national conference about applied linguistics took place in Stuttgart, to specially discuss the definition of applied linguistics. However, experts did not reach an agreement on the quality, characteristics, objects and scope of applied linguistics. (Gui Shichun: 9) Applied linguistics is a multi-disciplinary science, it is difficult to give exact answers to these problems. Hence, one may ask, what is the scope of applied linguistics, does applied linguistics has some kind of relationship with other discipline, etc? In Gertrau