摘要：Directions in Applied Linguistics is an edited work of 17 chapters, assembled as a tribute to four decades of work by Robert B. Kaplan. The five sections of the book focus on theareas of applied linguistics commonly associated with Kaplan – Perspectives on applied linguistics, Language education, English for academic purposes, Contrastive discourse analysis and Language planning and policy, all of which implicate the relationship between language theory, practice and use. Topics addressed include community languages, foreign language curriculum, the native/non-native speaker construct in TESOL,English for academic purposes, interactional turns in classrooms, and macro and micro issues in language planning and policy. Bruthiaux’s introduction identifies two emergingtrends in applied linguistics. The first includes researchers who focus on discourse as a critical dimension to frame their descriptive and social approaches to applied linguistics.By contrast, Bruthiaux claims a common approach in this book is a ‘bidirectional’ one, where ‘constructs derived from linguistics (broadly understood) are tested against everyday realities while those realities and the inherent language problems they contain are examined and ameliorated in the light of theory’ (11).
