Resumen de Understanding Language and Mind: applied Linguistics Now

Carmen María Bretones Callejas (ed. lit.), José Francisco Fernández Sánchez (ed. lit.), José Ramón Ibáñez Ibáñez (ed. lit.), María Elena García Sánchez (ed. lit.), María Enriqueta Cortés de los Ríos (ed. lit.), María Sagrario Salaberri Ramiro (ed. lit.), María Soledad Cruz Martínez (ed. lit.), Nobel Augusto Perdu Honeyman (ed. lit.), Blasina Cantizano Márquez (ed. lit.)

• For several decades Applied Linguistics has been in continous growth. Now it has become a solid field that explains the real-world problems in which language is a central issue. This cutting-edge field is displayed in this publication showing its implications in the real world through studies in areas so diverse as: language acquisition; language teaching and curricular desing: language for specific purposes; psychology of language, child language and psycholinguistic; sociolinguistics; pragmatics; discourse analysis; corpus linguisitics, computational linguisticas and linguistics engineering ; lexicology and lexicography; and translation and interpretation.