《套用语言学的原理与实践》为论文集，共收24篇论文，涉及语言教学理论和研究、第二语言习得、口头和书面话语、国际英语、交际能力和语法 、体裁和修辞、跨文化交际、语料库语言学、文学和文学教学、课堂实践等。全书分为5个部分：第一部分直接探讨理论及研究和教学之间的关係；第二部分讨论第二语言习得；第三部分涉及话语分析、对比修辞学、间接话语、语篇对形式的影响、话语结构的作用、法律语言学、语料库语言学等问题；第四部分论证语言教学与文学的关係，探讨在外语教学过程中如何用文学作品去引导学生，使学生能逐渐阅读更艰深的作品。另外，文中还提到要消除文学的神秘性，鼓励用非文学方法来指引学生欣赏文学语言。最后部分是有关语言理论在课堂教学中的套用。

Acknowledgements
1 An applied linguist in principle and practice
GUY COOK AND BARBARA SEIDLHOFER
2 Teacher professionalism and research
CHRISTOPHER BRUMFIT
3 The applied linguist and the foreign language teacher:
can they talk to each other?
CLAIRE KRAMSCH
4 Concept and conduct in language pedagogy
N. S. PRABHU
5 Appraising second language acquisition theory
in relation to language pedagogy
ROD ELLIS
6 Analysability, accessibility, and ability for use
PETER SKEHAN
7 Situational context, variation, and second language
acquisition theory
ELAINE TARONE AND GUO-QIANG LIU
CONTENTS
8 Three functions of output in second language learning
MERRILL SWAIN
9 Proficiency or the native speaker: what are we trying
to achieve in ELT?
ALAN DAVIES
10 Grammar and lexis in communicative competence
HEIKKI NYYSSONEN
11 Cultural meaning and rhetorical styles: toward
a framework for Contrastive Rhetoric
YAMUNA KACHRU
12 The paralinguistics of reference: representation
in reported discourse
GEORGE YULE
13 Grammar in discourse: attitude and deniability
ROB BATSTONE
14 Field-guides in strange tongues: a workshop
for Henry Widdowson
JOHN M. SWALES
15 Explorations in applied linguistics 3:
forensic stylistics
MALCOLM COULTHARD
16 Corpus evidellce for norms of lexical collocation
MICHAEL STUBBS
17 Corpora in language pedagogy: matching theory
and pract ce
GUY ASTON
18 Transcultural creativity in world Englishes
and literary canons
BRAJ B. KACHRU
19 An approach to the teaching and learning of poetry
in Nigeria
JOSEPH O. BISONG
CONTENTS
20 Discourse and creativity: bridging the gap
between language and literature
RONALD CARTER AND MICHAEL McCARTHY
21 The impact of the Army Specialized Training Program:
a reconsideration
BERNARD SPOLSKY
22 'Reading with a suspicious eye': Critical Reading
in the foreign language classroom
CATHERINE WALLACE
23 What is this class about? Topic formulation
in an Lx reading comprehension classroom
LUIZ PAULO DA MOITA LOPES
24 Discourse analysis and the teaching of listening
MARIANNE CELCE-MURCIA
Notes on the contributors
Bibliography
Index