Full Description
Applying Linguistics: Language and the Impact Agenda explores the challenges of demonstrating the socio-cultural and economic impact of research in linguistics. The chapters provide critical discussion of the concept of impact, as well as an examination of both the constraints and opportunities of the impact agenda. The book includes:
case studies of impact-focused research from leading scholars, such as M. Lynne Murphy, David Britain, Peter French and Bas Aarts;
discussion of impact from the perspective of the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF);
insights and opinions from academics, practitioners and journalists;
personal reflection on the nature of impact from the ESRC's Interim Chief Executive;
practical advice on generating and evidencing impact.
With chapters from international authors exploring impact both within and outside the context of the UK REF, Applying Linguistics: Language and the Impact Agenda will be essential reading for early-career researchers, established academics and PhD students interested in developing impact from their research.
Contents
List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Linguistics, language and the impact agenda; Part 1: Impact in theory; Chapter 2: Assessing the value of research in linguistics; Chapter 3: Reflections on impact; Chapter 4: Navigating the peripheries of impact: public engagement and the problem of kneejerk linguistics; Chapter 5: Public engagement as linguistic impact; Chapter 6: Language and impact: perspectives from outside the academy; Part 2: Impact in practice; Chapter 7: Using impact to make impact? Experiences from a dialect crowdsourcing project; Chapter 8: From corpus to clinic: health communication research and the impact agenda; Chapter 9: The impact of linguistics on AVT research and practice; Chapter 10: Language in conflict: linguistics in mediation; Chapter 11: Evaluating the impact of language documentation and revitalisation; Chapter 12: Assessing research impact in forensic speech science casework; Chapter 13: Using corpora for English language teaching and learning; Afterword; Chapter 14: Future challenges of the impact agenda; References; Index
