There is another popular text called "Language: The Social Mirror". I  
don't remember the author; I'm in the office and the book is at home,  
of course. It has a nice overview of various social significances of  
language.

In the linguistics community, "Applied Linguistics" is,  
unfortunately, virtually synonymous with "ESL". A lot of textbooks  
are not so narrow, thankfully.

Stylistics has not been much in fashion for a very long time. There  
is a little more going on these days. Cognitive stylistics is very  
active. "The Stylistics Reader" does cover nice ground over the  
history of the field.

An excellent book applying linguistics to literature, drama, etc. is  
"Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays, and Prose" by Mick Short.   
It's an excellent book, touching on everything from meter to point of  
view. It is also intended for people with no ling. background. It's  
only flaw is that it portrays English vowels as being a short-long  
system, which isn't accurate. But it does match what phonics programs  
teach (phonics terms would have worked very well for Middle English).

Dr. Johanna Rubba, Ph. D.
Associate Professor, Linguistics
Linguistics Minor Advisor
English Dept.
Cal Poly State University San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Ofc. tel. : 805-756-2184
Dept. tel.: 805-756-2596
Dept. fax: 805-756-6374
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URL: cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba

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