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Some Further Perspectives on the Development of Applied Linguistics: AResponse to Bialystok
Author(s) -
Brown H. Douglas
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
language learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.882
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1467-9922
pISSN - 0023-8333
DOI - 10.1111/0023-8333.00056
Subject(s) - metaphor , applied linguistics , linguistics , cognitive linguistics , quantitative linguistics , psychology , philosophy , cognition , neuroscience
Metaphors have a way of elucidating phenomena that defy empirical description. I was pleased to see that Ellen Bialystok had borrowed one of my favorite metaphors in her description of the growth of applied linguistics over the fifty years of Language Learning's existence. Some years ago (Brown, 1978) I chose the human development metaphor to describe processes of change in the language teaching profession. With this implicit permission, let me add some of my own perspectives to what Bialystok has already offered on the development of applied linguistics in the first section of the paper.