Extending Applied Linguistics for Social Impact

Doris S. Warriner is Professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University, USA.Elizabeth R. Miller is Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA.

• Introduction, Doris S. Warriner (Arizona State University, USA) and Elizabeth Miller (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)1. Engaging the Public in Sociolinguistics for Social Justice: Advocating for Pidgin Speakers in Hawai'i, Christina Higgins (University of Hawai’i-Manoa, USA)2. Building Partnerships and Expanding Repertoires of Practice: Working with and in Museums to Improve Informal Science Education for Linguistically Diverse Young Children, Leslie C. Moore (Ohio State University, USA)3. An Applied Linguist at Work: Tracing Language Choices in a Social Sustainability Network, Elizabeth Miller (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)4. Finding Answers within the Story: The Transformative Potential of Translanguaging Praxis, Obed Arango and Holly Link (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 5. Being, Seeing and Hearing White: When Theater-Arts Interrogate and Make Visible the Power of the Elephant in the Room, Ellen Skilton (Arcadia University, USA)6. Language as a Social Determinant of Health: Partnerships for Health Equity, Emily M. Feuerherm (University of Michigan, USA), Rachel E. Showstack (Wichita State University, USA), Maricel G. Santos (San Francisco State University, USA), Glenn A. Martinez (The Ohio State University, USA), and Holly E. Jacobson (University of New Mexico, USA)7. "It Depends Case by Case": Understanding How the Practices of Cultural Health Navigators Impact Health Care Access and Delivery for Refugee-Background Families, Katherine E. Morelli (Northeastern University, USA) and Doris S. Warriner (Arizona State University, USA)8. Applied Linguistic Anthropology: Balancing Social Science with Social Change, Netta Avineri (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, USA), Eric J. Johnson (Washington State University, USA), Bernard C. Perley (University of British Columbia, Canada), Jonathan Rosa (Stanford Graduate School of Education, USA) and Ana Celia Zentella (University of California San Diego, USA)Afterword: Crossing Borders, Rethinking Expertise, and Becoming Collaborative Linguists, Betsy Rymes (University of Pennsylvania, USA)Index

This highly engaging, beautifully crafted volume advances our understanding of what it means to authentically ‘apply’ ‘applied linguistics’. Chapters highlight how (and why) applied linguistics scholars can (and should) do more to make our findings relevant, to more meaningfully partner with communities, and to more fully engage with the world around us.