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This is the introduction to LHS 4.1, the special issue of the journal based on selected papers presented at the Free Linguistics Conference, 2009.

A. COURSE OBJECTIVE After learning the topic of the linguistics and related disciplines, the students are able to know and understand about the close relationship between linguistics and other related disciplines. B. COURSE DESCRIPTION Linguists are not the only people interested in the study of language, anthropologists, philosophers, psychologists, and language teachers have long been interested in language, and linguistics has close ties with each of the other disciplines. These ties have been stronger at some times than others as interests change and as the influence of one discipline on another grow or diminishes. a. Linguistics and Anthropology It is clear that linguistics is linguistics is the study of language, not any particular language, but human language in general. It can be assumed that it lerns about how the language changes, how meaning is changed and others. Meanwhile, anthropology is the study of humans, past and present, that build knowledge from social sciences, biological sciences, humanities, and the natural sciences. Humans have one particular language, and the language in one group is a crucial window in culture. Linguistics and anthropology have close relationship in our daily life. The relationship between them is called as socio-cultural anthropology. The relationship between anthropology and linguistics can be seen from the following examples. Linguists usually conduct long periods of fieldwork living with people who speak the language they are studying. They examine language and the emotions; ritual and performance; language shift and multilingualism; connections between language, ethnicity, nationalism, and political systems. For example, linguists are interested in investigated the development of Baduy language; they investigate how they use their

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Book reviews 183 An introduction to applied linguistics N. Schmitt (editor) London: Arnold, 2002. viii + 344 pp. Pbk £18.99; ISBN. 0 340 76419 8 Norbert Schmitt's overview of the state of the field of Applied Linguistics claims to be a 'sophisticated introduction' for those involved or soon to be involved in classroom teaching. The primary focus of the book is language teaching in the classroom and this is reflected in the discussions of the wide range of topics covered. After a brief orientation to the style and format of the chapters, the main part of the book begins with a useful introduction to the field. This describes how Applied Linguistics has evolved over the last century in response to changes in the way that the learning process has been viewed and is a theme that is picked up several times in later chapters. The first section on 'Description of Language and Language Use' includes chapters on the knotty issues involved in describing, and therefore teaching, grammar and on the ways in which vocabulary should be learned and assessed. These are followed by chapters on Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics, the latter involving a helpful real example of dialogue on which much of the discussion focuses. This section of the book ends with a chapter on the usefulness of Corpus Linguistics in gaining insight into actual language use. This is a very interesting but quite detailed chapter, not all ofwhich may be ofdirect interest to those involved in language teaching, though this is mitigated by the efforts of the authors to relate corpus findings to actual classroom activities. Section 2 comprises four chapters on 'Essential Areas of Enquiry in Applied Linguistics', highlighting factors affecting learning associated with the target language itself and with the language learner in terms of strategies and styles of learning, and how these can be addressed by the language teacher. The chapter on Psycholinguistics concentrates on language production in bilinguals. Psycholinguistics is a large and fascinating field of study and could not be covered fully in a chapter of this size; the authors of this chapter are therefore justified in their concentration on learning of a second language. Chapter 9 on 'Sociolinguistics' is a clear introduction to the basics of another vast field of research and includes very useful coverage of a study on Teeside to highlight the implications of sociolinguistic change. The final section of the book covers the basic skills of language: Listening, Speaking and Pronunciation, Reading and Writing and how these might be assessed in the classroom. Chapters on the first three of these skills underline the complex task involved in spoken communication, concentrating

The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia is a singlevolume encyclopedia covering all major and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The seventy nine entries provide in-depth coverage of the topics and sub-topics of the field. Entries are alphabetically arranged and extensively cross-referenced so the reader can see how areas interrelate. Including a substantial introduction which provides a potted history of linguistics and suggestions for further reading, this is an indispensable reference tool for specialists and non-specialists alike.

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