Applied linguistics /
Guy Cook.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- x, 134 p. ; 20 cm.
- Oxford introductions to language study .
- Oxford introductions to language study. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Applied linguistics -- Prescribing and describing: popular and academic views of 'correctness' -- Languages in the contemporary world -- English language teaching (ELT) -- Language and communication -- Context and culture -- Persuasion and poetics: rhetoric and resistance -- Past, present, and future directions.