《卢德里奇应用语言学手册》是应用语言学各个重要领域的入门和参考读本。本书共五章，包含由相关领域专家撰写的四十七篇论文。围绕“将关于语言的知识和语言研究的成果与真实世界的决策行为联系起来”这一贯穿始终的问题，每篇文章都追溯了相关主题的过去，总结现状并展望未来，探讨了新技术在应用语言学领域中产生的影响和应用状况，并提供拓展阅读的推荐书目和核心术语的注释，方便读者学习理解。

Tables and figures
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Applied linguistics in the contemporary world
James Simpson
Part I Applied linguistics in action
1 Language policy and planning
2 Lionel Wee
Business communication
Vijay Bhatia and Aditi Bhatia
3 Translation and interpreting
Mona Baker and Luis Pérez-González
4 Lexicography
Thierry Fontenelle
5 The media
Anne O'Keeffe
6 Institutional discourse
Celia Roberts
7 Medical communication
Sarah Collins, Sarah Peters and lan Watt
8 Clinical linguistics
Michael Perkins and Sara Howard
9 Language and ageing
Kees de Bot and Nienke van der Hoeven
10 Forensic linguistics
Frances Rock
Part Ⅱ Language learning, language education
11 Key concepts in language learning and language education
Diane Larsen-Freeman
12 Second language acquisition
Lourdes Ortega
13 Language teaching methodology
Scott Thornbury
14 Technology and language learning
Richard Kern
15 Language teacher education
Simon Borg
16 Bilingual education
Ingrid Gogolin
17 English for academic purposes
Nigel Harwood and Bojana Petrié
18 Language testing
Barry O'Sullivan
19 Classroom discourse
Amy B.M.Tsui
20 Language socialization
Agnes Weiyun He
Part Ⅲ Language, culture and identity
21 Language and culture
Claire Kramsch
22 Identity
Bonny Norton
23 Gender
Judith Baxter
24 Ethnicity
Roxy Harris
25 Sign languages
Bencie Woll and Rachel Sutton-Spence
26 World Englishes
Andy Kirkpatrick and David Deterding
27 Linguistic imperialism
Suresh Canagarajah and Selim Ben Said
28 Multilingualism
Jasone Cenoz and Durk Gorter
29 Language and migration
Mike Baynham
Part Ⅳ Perspectives on language in use
30 Discourse analysis
Guy Cook
31 Critical discourse analysis
Kieran O'Halloran
32 Neurolinguistics
Elisabeth Ahlsén
33 Psycholinguistics
John Field
34 Sociocultural and cultural-historical theories of language development
Steven L. Thorne and Thomas Tasker
35 Sociolinguistics
Carmen Llamas
36 Linguistic ethnography
Janet Maybin and Karin Tusting
37 Literacy
Doris S. Warriner
38 Stylistics
Elena Semino
Part Ⅴ Descriptions of language for applied linguistics
39 Grammar
Michael Swan
40 Lexis
Joe Barcrofi, Gretchen Sunderman and Norbert Schmitt
41 Phonetics and phonology
Helen Fraser
42 Corpus linguistics
Svenja Adolphs and Phoebe M. S. Lin
43 Cognitive linguistics
Hans-J?rg Schmid and Friedrich Ungerer
44 Systemic functional linguistics
Lynne Young
45 Generative grammar
Shigenori Wakabayashi
46 The emergence of language as a complex adaptive system
Nick C. Ellis
47 Multimodality
Theo van Leeuwen
Index
The List of Terminology