Linguistics | Why we do need Applied Linguistics?
LINGUISTICS
Why do we need applied linguistics?
Professor at Bilking University, Philip Durant, defines applied linguistics as:
Applied linguistics is any effort to work with language in a critical and reflexive manner, with some ultimate practical goal in mind. This includes 'among other things: efforts to deliberately learn 'or teach' a foreign language or developing your ability to your native language; overcoming Language impairment.
Translating from one language to another. Editing a piece of writing in a linguistically deliberate way. It also includes doing any research or developing any ideas or tools intended to help people do these kinds of things.
What characterize Applied linguistics from proper linguistics is what the applied linguist identifies as the "ultimate practical objective" of his research.
While linguistics seeks to understand simply what language and language use is, Applied linguistics wants to derive from its understanding of what language and language is used as relevant solutions to language-related problems that arise when people who speak different languages fail to communicate especially because they do not. They speak the same languages.
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