Antje Wilton
List of John Benjamins publications in which Antje Wilton is involved.
Book series
Titles
English in Europe Today: Sociocultural and educational perspectives
Edited by Annick De Houwer and Antje Wilton
This volume discusses several facets of English in today's multilingual Europe. It emphasizes the interdependence between cultures, languages and situations that influence its use. This interdependence is particularly relevant to European settings where English is being learned as a second language. read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 8] 2011. xi, 170 pp.
Applied Folk Linguistics. AILA Review, Volume 24
Edited by Antje Wilton and Martin Stegu
Within applied linguistics, a number of approaches consider the ideas that lay people have about language-related topics. Taking those ideas as a serious object of research is essentially what can be subsumed under the folk linguistics approach. This issue of the AILA Review connects the study of… read more[AILA Review, 24] 2011. iii, 115 pp.
Articles
2011 The dynamics of English in a multilingual Europe English in Europe Today: Sociocultural and educational perspectives, De Houwer, Annick and Antje Wilton (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Article
Throughout European history, multilingualism has coexisted with one or more linguae francae. Today’s European lingua franca is English, and it, too, functions within a thoroughly multilingual context. This introduction to the volume English in Europe Today illuminates some of the sociocultural and… read more
2011 Linking past and present: A view of historical comments about language Applied Folk Linguistics, Wilton, Antje and Martin Stegu (eds.), pp. 55–67 | Article
In this paper, we focus on comments on language issues from a historical perspective. The concept of the layperson (non-linguist) is discussed to identify laypeople and lay comments in history when the modern concept of a linguist did not yet exist. Two studies show how the historical perspective… read more
2011 Bringing the ‘folk’ into applied linguistics: An introduction Applied Folk Linguistics, Wilton, Antje and Martin Stegu (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
As applied linguistics is mainly concerned with solving the language-related problems of laypeople, the examination of folk views constitutes an important research field and its relevance is illustrated in this issue of the AILA review. In this introductory article, we address some of the more… read more


