Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Appliable linguistics: an introduction / Ahmar Mahboob and Naomi K. Knight -- 2. Pinpointing the choice: meaning and the search for equivalents in a translated text / M. A. K. Halliday -- 3. Appliable linguistics and English language teaching: the scaffolding literacy in adult and tertiary environments (SLATE) project / Ahmar Mahboob, Shoshana Dreyfus, Sally Humphrey and J. R. Martin -- 4. Negotiating evaluation: story structure and appraisal in youth justice conferencing / J. R. Martin, Michele Zappavigna and Paul Dwyer -- 5. Modelling social affiliation and genre in the civic domain / Sally Humphrey -- 6. 'News' and 'register': a preliminary investigation / Annabelle Lukin -- 7. Constructing sports stars: appliable linguistics and the language of the media / Shoshana Dreyfus and Sandra C. Jones -- 8. Naming culture in convivial conversational humour / Naomi K. Knight -- 9. Visualizing appraisal prosody / Michele Zappavigna, Chris Cléirigh, Paul Dwyer and J. R. Martin -- 10. Evaluative stance in humanities: expectations and performances / Erika Matruglio -- 11. The 3x3: setting up a linguistic toolkit for teaching academic writing / Sally Humphrey, J. R. Martin, Shooshi Dreyfus and Ahmar Mahboob -- 12. Why are logical connectives sometimes detrimental to coherence? / Alan Jones -- 13. Contestable reality: a multi-level view on modality in multimodal pedagogic context / Yumin Chen -- 14. Making many meanings in popular rap music / David Caldwell -- 15. Rank in visual grammar: some implications for multimodal discourse analysis / Sumin Zhao -- 16. The meaning of 'not' is not in 'not' / Ruqaiya Hasan.