The Birth of Applied Linguistics
The Anglo-Scandinavian school as ‘discourse community
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4915367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew R Linn (University of Sheffield), Andrew Linn (University of Sheffield, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 342-384 |
| Publication date | 2008-08-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historiographia Linguistica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0302-5160 • E-ISSN: 1569-9781 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/hl.35.3.04lin |
| OpenAlex | W1974582000 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 15 |
The major claim of this article is that there is an independent and clearly defined chapter in the development of linguistics, beginning in the 1880s, which represents the birth of modern applied linguistics, and which has been overlooked in linguistic historiography because of the comparative marginalisation of applied linguistics in the literature. This is the Anglo-Scandinavian School, a phrase its members used to describe themselves. Pioneers within phonetics, these linguists applied their phonetic knowledge to a range of 'real world' language issues, notably language-teaching reform, orthographic reform, language planning, and the study of the spoken language. As well as presenting the ideas of the Anglo-Scandinavian School and how they were developed, this article interrogates the notion of a school in intellectual history and proposes that it may in fact be more fruitful to view intellectual history in terms of discourse communities
Historical linguistics · Historiography · History of linguistics · Intellectual history · Spoken language · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistic research and analysis · Linguistic Variation and Morphology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2023 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |