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Respon­si­ble design in applied lin­guis­tics: the­o­ry and prac­tice
No mere his­to­ry of applied lin­guis­tics, this vol­ume presents a frame­work for inter­pret­ing the devel­op­ment of applied lin­guis­tics as a dis­ci­pline. It offers a sys­tem­at­ic account of how applied lin­guis­tics has devel­oped, artic­u­lat­ing the philo­soph­i­cal premis­es that have informed both its emer­gence and its sub­se­quent growth. It asks ques­tions that are sel­dom asked: Where does the dis­ci­pline derive from? Where is it head­ing? What direc­tions has it already tak­en? Which direc­tion should it embrace in future? What is the rel­a­tive worth of all of the vari­a­tion in design and meth­ods that have been devel­oped by applied lin­guists? In defin­ing applied lin­guis­tics as a dis­ci­pline of design, it takes us beyond the dif­fuse and some­times con­tra­dic­to­ry con­ven­tion­al def­i­n­i­tions of the field. The frame­work of design prin­ci­ples it pro­pos­es not only helps to explain the his­tor­i­cal devel­op­ment of applied lin­guis­tics, but also pro­vides a poten­tial jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for solu­tions to lan­guage prob­lems. It presents us with noth­ing less than an emerg­ing the­o­ry of applied lin­guis­tics.
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Dis­gust and desire: the para­dox of the mon­ster
Mon­sters have tak­en many forms across time and cul­tures, yet with­in these vari­a­tions, mon­sters often evoke the same para­dox­i­cal response: dis­gust and desire. We simul­ta­ne­ous­ly fear mon­sters and take plea­sure in see­ing them, and their role in human cul­ture helps to explain this appar­ent con­tra­dic­tion. Mon­sters are cre­at­ed in order to delin­eate where the accept­able bound­aries of action and emo­tion exist. How­ev­er, while killing the mon­ster allows us to cast out social­ly unac­cept­able desires, the preva­lence of mon­sters in both his­to­ry and fic­tion reveals humanity’s desire to see and expe­ri­ence the for­bid­den. We seek, write about, and dis­play mon­sters as both a warn­ing and wish ful­fil­ment, and mon­sters, there­fore, reveal that the line between desire and dis­gust is often thin. Look­ing across gen­res, sub­jects, and peri­ods, this book exam­ines what our con­flict­ed reac­tion to the mon­ster tells us about human cul­ture.
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