Volume 17 of AILA Review will focus on Applied Linguistics as an international discipline. Authors from various regions of the world will focus on the following questions: What has been the development of Applied Linguistics in your region? What are current issues being dealt with in Applied… read more
AILA Review is a publication of the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée, an international federation of national associations for applied linguistics. Volume 16 of AILA Review is the first to appear with John Benjamins and contains a unique collection of articles, guest-edited by… read more
The aim of this article is to analyze the nature of the historical and contemporary social contexts within which applied linguistics in Africa emerged, and is currently practiced. The article examines the challenges ‘local’ applied Linguistics in Africa is confronted with as it tries to amplify… read more
The article undertakes an integrated, holistic and multidisciplinary study of the language produced over an extended period by an ageing South African woman suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. It does so against the background of the medical and legal records of the dementing person’s condition… read more