Alan Davies & Catherine Elder (eds.), The handbook of
applied linguistics. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004. Pp. viii, 866. Hb
$139.95.
The Handbook of Applied Linguistics is the latest in the
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics Series, which covers the major
subdisciplines within linguistics. The previous 16 volumes have provided
an extensive state-of-the-art overview of areas ranging from Child
Language to Morphology, and from Contemporary Semantic
Theory to Language and Gender. This latest volume collects
32 articles within the field of applied linguistics, adding to the list of
recent major publications in applied linguistics (e.g., Cook 2003, Gass & Makoni 2004, Kaplan 2002, McCarthy
2001) that, with varying emphases, demonstrate
the broad range of the discipline as well as indicating some of the
different ways in which it can be conceptualized.